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suprz's ghost · Mar 25, 2003, 03:03 PM

i'm sure you've all heard this before, and i once said i would never switch to OSX but after using it for 3 days, i'm totally hooked! the interface is gorgeous and i cant wait to put it on my B&W G3. damn, it makes OS9 look fugly!

gorickey · Mar 25, 2003, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by suprz's ghost:
...and i cant wait to put it on my B&W G3.

Umm, don't get too excited...maybe you "should" wait for a G4.

suprz's ghost · Mar 25, 2003, 03:20 PM

meh, i'm not too worried. i've overclocked her to 400mhz and i got 256mb ram, and i got a new 7200rpm hd. my buddy has a 400mhz imac with jag running on it and it's fine, it's no hotrod, but it's o.k. and the only difference is he's got 512mb of ram. hell, ram is cheap enough where i can max it out to a gig if i need to. (i heard that OSX LOVES ram!)

fisherKing · Mar 25, 2003, 04:50 PM

i made the move from os9 3 weeks ago, and will never go back.

X struggles on my g3/400 powerbook (5400rpm hd, 768ram) but the stability, the gui, the logic of it...rocks.

2 more apps left to move from classic & i will be X full time...

Fallout · Mar 25, 2003, 05:30 PM

Throw in another 256 MB of RAM, it'll help a LOT.

suprz · Mar 25, 2003, 05:35 PM

it's kinda hard when i get frustrated over trying to load simple apps and having them work. i know OS9 so well, and i feel like a complete idiot with OSX (see other thread about synergy)

well i guess it's time for this old dog to learn new tricks

beb · Mar 25, 2003, 09:43 PM

I installed jaguar on my bosses G4/400 and I was actually suprised at how well it works.

michaelb · Mar 25, 2003, 10:23 PM

I made a full-time switch to Mac OS X from a G4 450 MHz Cube running OS 9.1 to a G4 dual-1.25 MHz tower running OS X 10.2 Jaguar.

Everything about the transition felt just right - the processor boost swallowed up the interface perfectly, like a well-synched clutch change.

Mac OS X shines on the right hardware. And when the 970 Macs hit, Apple are going to have some seriously interested switchers on their hands.

t_hah · Mar 26, 2003, 12:06 AM

Welcome then. I have seen OS running on low end systems and I was quite surised that it ran quite well. It is not a real Jaguar, maybe a really fat one, but it works. under OSX so many thigns are happening, and if you are good you can control many of those things from the Terminal, or other apps that you can get online.

It is really, or as steve would say, truly a great system. good luck,

t

SubGeniux · Mar 26, 2003, 04:56 AM

I'm actually quite impressed with X on my mac, there's no way I could go back to 9, or even think about windows( I do use it though for another bit of software not on the mac) I'm running Jaguar on a pb g3 firewire wich a 400mhz cpu and 320 mb ram, the same 10gb hard drive that came with it. I just love it, never had a days complaint about it. It's by no means slow or struggling yet, I think so anyway, and I'm running photoshop, flash, premiere, combustion on it, it does kinda struggle with video streams, but that's mor ethe syterm than X, but the bebefits just outweigh any negatives by a hundred miles. It's just leaps ahead of any othe OS and I've used most of them too. I tried going back to 9 when I was running 10.0 and thought it was too slow(jaguar is so different) but even then ihad to come back to X as i couldnt stand being in 9, it crashed, was slow when running multiple apps, it didn't feel as good, it didn;t have the dock(i love it, being able to drag a file onto an app in the dock is such a time saver), didn't feel as organic as X, X interface is adream, it has it moments, but overall it is the best interface experience yet. anyhoo, i could go on, but i guess everyone get the picture that X is just the best

sub

bradoesch · Mar 26, 2003, 10:16 AM

Originally posted by suprz's ghost:
(i heard that OSX LOVES ram!)

It sure does! I recently maxed out my iMac DV with 1 GB, and it a different machine now. I had 384 MB previously, which I *thought* was sufficient.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 27, 2003, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by beb:
I installed jaguar on my bosses G4/400 and I was actually suprised at how well it works.

Uhh... yeah. Why shouldn't it?

I'm still using my G4/400 and it's a hot rod still. Running an insane amount of apps from the low end shareware to high end Adobe, Macromedia, Apple FCP and Audio apps.

Sure I've upgraded it to 1.25 gigs of RAM, 100GB HD and a Radeon 8500, but it's still the same 400 Mhz.

You see Mhz don't really matter that much anymore. Raw CPU speed is nice of course, but this computer is still da **** when it comes to running OS X 10.2.

And why yes, I do occasionally run the latest 3D games.

GENERAL_SMILEY · Mar 27, 2003, 12:27 PM

Originally posted by suprz's ghost:
meh, i'm not too worried. i've overclocked her to 400mhz and i got 256mb ram, and i got a new 7200rpm hd. my buddy has a 400mhz imac with jag running on it and it's fine, it's no hotrod, but it's o.k. and the only difference is he's got 512mb of ram. hell, ram is cheap enough where i can max it out to a gig if i need to. (i heard that OSX LOVES ram!)

I run Jag on my B&W 350, got about 500 in RAM - works fine for me in almost all cases.

Avon · Mar 27, 2003, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Umm, don't get too excited...maybe you "should" wait for a G4.

I got my father a BW G3. Runs 10.2 like a charm.

sniffer · Mar 27, 2003, 05:16 PM

LOL! What a thread. Everyone seems snappy happy on their machines with jagwire regardless of hardware.

Me for one is getting tired of gui freezes and sleep issues that have accoured to me once in a while (once a week?), so I am in protest typing this in os 9. Perhaps I am just spoiled?

OS 9 being 19 yo can be both a good and a bad thing. Ok.. I start missing X again. Time to reboot back.

CheesePuff · Mar 27, 2003, 06:12 PM

On my 1 GHz PowerBook G4 it feels great, the L3 cache really helps out the G4 processor. I think all G4's should have and still should ship with L3 cache... and now my Power Mac G4 800 MHz feels slow.