[rambo47]

Am I screwing the pooch by doing this? I have had the Screen Saver version of SETI@home running flawlessly on my G4 PowerMac for some time now (all of 2 weeks) and I just installed the CLI version for OSX and fired that up as well. I noticed the tremendous speed improvement on that miserable Sony Vaio laptop when I went to the command line version and figured, "What's good for a P III processor laptop running Win2000 Pro must be great for a G4 running OSX." Should I kill the Screen Saver version on my Mac (once its done with its current WU) or leave 'em both running?

[reader50]

The CLI does not give such a dramatic speed boost on the Mac, unless you had the screen saver showing graphics full time.

It will not hurt it to run both. If you have a dialup connection, there is some benefit from having two clients, so if one finishes the other will keep crunching. But you can do that with 2 CLI clients.

I suppose it depends on if you like to see the SETI@home graphics now and then. It will not hurt anything, but the CLI will be somewhat faster, especially if you leave it running in the background all the time.

[Scotttheking]

If you've got broadband or a dial on demand modem, turn off the screensaver.
It is slower, although not as much.