IT-Enquirer has a three-part special on Mac OS X 10.4: Part 1, 2 and 3. Update: I declare the comments section on this news item to be a disaster zone. It can't be saved. Just stay away.
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I can attest to this, I have a G3 PowerMac B+W 300Mhz. I happened to have some extra PC133 ram laying around so it now has 768MB of ram. This didn't help performance at all. It is usable, but resizing windows is laggy as hell, and menus seem to have a noticable pause. I only use the machine for compiling my QT apps for the Mac, though it also is my web/file server. I think the main bottleneck is the 16MB ATi Expert or whatever crappy PCI graphics card in there that doesn't allow Quarts Exptreme.
@coolkamio
I am mainly pointing out that I would be wasting my money on useless features. Maybe if I had a bluetooth phone/pda, or an external hard drive/iPod/DV Cam, or a gigabit network already in place these features might be put to good use. Unfortunately I have none of these devices, so I would be paying a premium for useless (to me) features.
There are three different kinds of people in the world: Those who buy SUV's and will never use it to it's capacity, those who buy SUV's and will use it to it's capacity, and those who don't buy SUV's. To apply this analogy to computers, there are those who buy a Mac and won't use any of it's features just because it is a "status" object, those who will use the features of a Mac, and those who don't buy a Mac because it doesn't suit their needs. In a business there is little to no room to spend frivolously, so you need to find the right tool for the job. In situations where you need a lot of performance, little hassle, do photo/video/audio editing, etc... a Mac would be a good deal, especially the more expensive you get. In situations where you only need email/internet/office a cheap Dell or <insert commodity brand here> might running Linux would suffice. For a good software firewall you might look to OpenBSD.
BTW, as far as tools analogies go, Linux would definitely be Duct Tape -- it can be used for pretty much any job imaginable, OS X would be Torx screwdriver -- more expensive than an ordinary screwdriver, harder to find screws for it, but can be used in place of most common screws with the added beneit of polish and uniqueness, and Windows would be a hammer -- almost everyone has one, it will work with practically anything, but it likes to do things its own way, and is prone to breakdown
(feel free to replace the hammer with something more appropriate, I didnt get much sleep, so my creativity is lacking)
@drsmithy
I can attest to this, I have a G3 PowerMac B+W 300Mhz. I happened to have some extra PC133 ram laying around so it now has 768MB of ram. This didn't help performance at all. It is usable, but resizing windows is laggy as hell, and menus seem to have a noticable pause. I only use the machine for compiling my QT apps for the Mac, though it also is my web/file server. I think the main bottleneck is the 16MB ATi Expert or whatever crappy PCI graphics card in there that doesn't allow Quarts Exptreme.
@coolkamio
I am mainly pointing out that I would be wasting my money on useless features. Maybe if I had a bluetooth phone/pda, or an external hard drive/iPod/DV Cam, or a gigabit network already in place these features might be put to good use. Unfortunately I have none of these devices, so I would be paying a premium for useless (to me) features.
There are three different kinds of people in the world: Those who buy SUV's and will never use it to it's capacity, those who buy SUV's and will use it to it's capacity, and those who don't buy SUV's. To apply this analogy to computers, there are those who buy a Mac and won't use any of it's features just because it is a "status" object, those who will use the features of a Mac, and those who don't buy a Mac because it doesn't suit their needs. In a business there is little to no room to spend frivolously, so you need to find the right tool for the job. In situations where you need a lot of performance, little hassle, do photo/video/audio editing, etc... a Mac would be a good deal, especially the more expensive you get. In situations where you only need email/internet/office a cheap Dell or <insert commodity brand here> might running Linux would suffice. For a good software firewall you might look to OpenBSD.
BTW, as far as tools analogies go, Linux would definitely be Duct Tape -- it can be used for pretty much any job imaginable, OS X would be Torx screwdriver -- more expensive than an ordinary screwdriver, harder to find screws for it, but can be used in place of most common screws with the added beneit of polish and uniqueness, and Windows would be a hammer -- almost everyone has one, it will work with practically anything, but it likes to do things its own way, and is prone to breakdown
(feel free to replace the hammer with something more appropriate, I didnt get much sleep, so my creativity is lacking)
/end long and drawn out post/rant