But who's going to actually use that terminology? It's like converting the US to the metric system, it just ain't happen folks.
So just know that people are stupid, lazy, or both.
Re:I find Mac OS X slow
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Is Mac OS X Slow?
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Having owned a Titanium PowerBook G4 550 for around a year now, and having used OS X, I find it extreamly slow, even compared to a 500 mhz x86 machine. Now going from my AMD Athlon 2200+ with 512MB ram to the TiBook is getting to be painful.
However, I've also used YellowDog Linux for a while on the same TiBook, and it runs quite a bit faster.
I'm waiting for my copy of X.2 to come so I can give it a try. I'm also runing with 256 MB of RAM, which I'm going to upgrade to 512 tomorrow which should help quite a bit as well. From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) but don't PowerBooks use 4200 RPM hard drives? That's a huge performance loss over normal 7200 RPM desktop drives. I'm sure, as is Apple's tradition, that it's loading way too much at startup to gain speed in what they dicided to be "the most commonly used applications". Remember watching the elder Mac's as their extensions filled one line and then almost filled another as default? All those eat up ram.
Just looking at 'top' in X.1 shows 98 threads, 38 processes 36 of which are sleeping. 195MB of physical memory are being used currently and CPU usage bounces between 12% and 55% just typing this message. Currently, I'm running one IE window, typing this, AIM (main window only) and a terminal window running top. Personally, I think these statictics are pretty bad. There's no way I should be using that much resources doing essentially nothing.
But, even with all that complaining, I still like my Mac and I'm not the least bit sorry I bought it. Mind you I like my PC better, but I love speed, OCing and modding and the pc is the way to go for that.
Actually...just hit Ctrl+Alt+0 through 9 to change the transparancy. Mind you that this stupid program does take one hell of a hit on the GDI. Slows the thing way the heck down. And that's on my P3 866 with 448MB ram and a GeForce 2 GTS card.
Actually...there is. There is a remote LCD head that you can put on your dash and run the cable to the unit under your seat or in the trunk. It's $69 for the "Wired Control Panel".
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We're talking kilobytes vs. kibibytes. Kilo is of course, and by definition, 1000, base 10.
Kibibyte = 2^10
Mebibyte = 2^20
Gibibyte = 2^30
Tebibyte = 2^40
But who's going to actually use that terminology? It's like converting the US to the metric system, it just ain't happen folks.
So just know that people are stupid, lazy, or both.
Having owned a Titanium PowerBook G4 550 for around a year now, and having used OS X, I find it extreamly slow, even compared to a 500 mhz x86 machine. Now going from my AMD Athlon 2200+ with 512MB ram to the TiBook is getting to be painful.
However, I've also used YellowDog Linux for a while on the same TiBook, and it runs quite a bit faster.
I'm waiting for my copy of X.2 to come so I can give it a try. I'm also runing with 256 MB of RAM, which I'm going to upgrade to 512 tomorrow which should help quite a bit as well. From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) but don't PowerBooks use 4200 RPM hard drives? That's a huge performance loss over normal 7200 RPM desktop drives. I'm sure, as is Apple's tradition, that it's loading way too much at startup to gain speed in what they dicided to be "the most commonly used applications". Remember watching the elder Mac's as their extensions filled one line and then almost filled another as default? All those eat up ram.
Just looking at 'top' in X.1 shows 98 threads, 38 processes 36 of which are sleeping. 195MB of physical memory are being used currently and CPU usage bounces between 12% and 55% just typing this message. Currently, I'm running one IE window, typing this, AIM (main window only) and a terminal window running top. Personally, I think these statictics are pretty bad. There's no way I should be using that much resources doing essentially nothing.
But, even with all that complaining, I still like my Mac and I'm not the least bit sorry I bought it. Mind you I like my PC better, but I love speed, OCing and modding and the pc is the way to go for that.
Actually...just hit Ctrl+Alt+0 through 9 to change the transparancy. Mind you that this stupid program does take one hell of a hit on the GDI. Slows the thing way the heck down. And that's on my P3 866 with 448MB ram and a GeForce 2 GTS card.
But it's stil fun, and has it's applications.
"Supports MP2 and MP3 at 8-320 Kbps (including VBR)"
~Max
Actually...there is. There is a remote LCD head that you can put on your dash and run the cable to the unit under your seat or in the trunk. It's $69 for the "Wired Control Panel".
~Max
This is straight from Maxtor's web site, about Maxtors' DiamondMax® Plus 45 Family:
SHOCK:
Operating Mechanical Shock:
30 Gs, 2 ms
(no errors)*
Non-Operating Mechanical Shock:
250 Gs, 2 ms
(no damage)*
* Without non-recoverable errors
I think it can handle a bit of bumpage in a car!
~Max