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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Nathan,
I found most of my Linux setups to be quite sluggish until I ran across a little utility called "hdparm"
It seems that most distroes don't turn on things like DMA, and 32 bit access for your hard drive when going through the installation so you have to do this manually. As an example, the transfer rate of my drive went from 10Mbps to 48Mbps with some simple tweaking
Hope this helps.