Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 8th Jul 2006 08:07 UTC
A few months ago Thom bought and reviewed an iMac G3 333 Mhz while it was running Mac OS 9. I was always fond of the looks of the classic iMacs. They were just too cute to not want one. Recently Geeks.com restocked their Mac line with refurbished iMac G3s. They sent us one in, a 400 Mhz DV model (first released in October 1999) and we tried out not only Mac OS 9.2.2 but also the latest Mac OS X, v10.4.7. Read more as to how this old good classic iMac G3 performed.
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2005-07-12
>> I'm typing this from a 466Mhz G4 with an ATI Rage 128Pro (16MB) card circa 2000, and having shadow on or off makes NO DIFFERENCE in dragging or resizing windows. I've also used OS X on an old PowerBook with just 4MB of VRAM (with XpostFacto) and the difference was minimal.
and how are you turning off the shadows? Using a resident third party utility like Shadowkiller? Sure as hell aren't doing it with anything built in to the OS. Hate to break it to you, but that just chews up as much memory AND still leaves the uber-blitter engine (in which all the windows are now drawn) running.
Goes hand in hand with why having multiple items on the desktop can start to drag OS X under - even the ICONS on the desktop are handled as fully qualified window objects drawn with the 'accellerated' blitter. You drop down to the 2 meg Rage Mobility (aka Rage LT) used in the early (sub 500mhz) G3's and you've got no accelleration in OSX, which is where you'd see a real difference.
Seriously, on OS X more time is probably spent drawing the window frame than is spent on the window CONTENTS.