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Kanga OS8 or OS9
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Hi. I have a Kanga 3500 Powerbook: 250MHz, 64MB Ram, 7Gig Hard Drive.
Which would run faster on the machine OS 8 or os 9? I would like to have OS 9 for some applications, but I do not want it to go slow. What do you guys think?
Also, how can I get my laptop running faster (disk cache, virtual ram, ram disk, etc...) I dont know what to set this stuff at for best performance
Thanks!
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Run OS9, OS8 was just as slow IIRC and 9 had more features especially where the internet was concerned. With that much RAM, even 9 should work at top speed. You can speed it up even further by turning off virtual memory, running off of a RAM disk, etc. but I think you would find the speed quite acceptable without doing much tweaking at all.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Put OS9 on it.
Put the highest 9 on it you can, unless you need to run specific stuff that might not run in nine (I still have some of that).
OS9Helper might be your friend, just google it.
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I was always one to go for the max on that so I agree OS 9.
However the site System7Today offers a lot of comparisons and they seem to favor os7-8 as you can use the Speed up and mem applications for more tweaks under it.
I am currently putting OS 9 back on my TiBook to see if I can get back to it for most of what I do. I miss it lol. (Yeah I am strange).
I like OS 9 just because it was my understanding that they finished moving everything over to PPC code from 680x0 code. I find that the most important factor to me, esp since your using a G3 processor.
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Originally Posted by masons247
Hi. I have a Kanga 3500 Powerbook: 250MHz, 64MB Ram, 7Gig Hard Drive.
Which would run faster on the machine OS 8 or os 9? I would like to have OS 9 for some applications, but I do not want it to go slow. What do you guys think?
Also, how can I get my laptop running faster (disk cache, virtual ram, ram disk, etc...) I dont know what to set this stuff at for best performance
Thanks!
If you can get a copy of SpeedDoubler, it might justify using whatever system is supported by it. It was a great application, and I doubt that the bulk of OS 9 is offset by the native code. It's worth a shot.
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OS 9.1 worked great on my PowerBook G3 Kanga. Everything was fast, really fast, Finder, most apps, everything …�beautiful machine. Only the screen was a bit small …
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OS 9, it ran well on a PowerBook 3400.
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