[OT]Mac OS-X irritatingly slow on G3 pBook

Hans-Martin Mosner hmm at heeg.de
Sat Jun 8 16:36:59 UTC 2002


Tim Rowledge wrote:

> Now that I finally have OS-X on my pBook I'm getting really annoyed by
> the stunning slowness of many operations. My pBook may be a couple of
> years old but it really ought not be glacial yet!

Our experience with OS X is that you need L2 cache sizes larger than those
normally found in PowerBooks :-(
VW is *slower* on a PB with enough mem and a faster processor than our G3
desktop machine, just because the L2 cache is too small. Apple really
needs to get performance-aware.

Cheers,
Hans-Martin





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