Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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His video chip is the bottleneck in addition to the low bus speed of his iBook (which I believe is only 66MHz as opposed to the newer iBook's 100MHz bus). But a huge bottleneck is the Rage 128. The Rage 128 is incapable of handling non power of 2 textures. Quartz Extreme needs this. Despite the marketing, Quartz Extreme really does make a difference. I've got an iBook 700 dual USB with 640MB and an ATI Mobility 7500. It runs OS X beautifully, and I'm a developer. I typically have apache and mysql running in the background, with a dozen large apps open like Project Builder. The G3 is seldom a bottleneck. I have seen Macs that don't support Quartz Extreme, and that is where the sluggish feel comes from. QE really does make a difference. For most users, running OS X without QE-capable hardware would be unbearable, so I can see where he's coming from.