Star Why I Ditched MacOSX for Linux - A Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
Linux 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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OSX is dog slow, even on G4
by Anonymous on Tue 20th May 2003 09:24 UTC

I had the same experience on a G4 TiBook. MacOS X just doesn't perform very well.

It's sad, but true. The 'most advanced UNIX GUI in the world' crawls on any machine less than 800Mhz without Quartz Extreme.

My 550Mhz G4 TiBook was nice hardware-wise, but I ended up using MPlayer to play DivXs because Quicktime didn't support them, and running Mozilla remotely from an 800Mhz x86 box because it was faster than native mozilla on 10.1.5.

With Photoshop now running properly under Crossover Office, I can't imagine myself buying another Mac instead of an x86 machine running Linux.