[luau] Still curious about OSX display speed

R Scott Belford sctinc at mac.com
Mon Apr 8 15:07:40 PDT 2002


Sorry, Jeff, my mac.com account seems to be missing some messages.  My 
original ibook has some very "old" hardware.  The video adaptor shares 
either 4 or 8 megs of my ram.  It is only a 300mhz G3.  Because my wife 
uses it, I have not been able to take it down for a few days to try out 
Yellow Dog, debian, or even Mandrake for the ppc.  Consequently, I don't 
have any comparisons.  I will say that compared to a debian x86 box I 
have and a redhat 7.2 x86 box, the gui is nearly as fast for browsing, 
etc.  Both of the x86 have better graphics cards.   Compared to my x86 
box at work with a geforce3 64mb ddr videocard, well, there is no 
comparison.  Were I to do some serious graphic manipulation with gimp, I 
would probably see some performance issues.  This would be less an issue 
with newer mac hardware.  I would say, based on how exquisite and fast 
the gui is, that Aqua makes superior use of, in my case, limited 
hardware resources.

Cyberclops, the usability could not be better.  One of my favorite 
features is my location manager.  I select work, and all my network 
settings change for that environment.  I select school, same thing.  No 
reboot, maybe a 2 second pause.  The mac gui is more "user friendly" 
than linux, but, this is really debatable.

scott


On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 07:03  AM, Cyberclops wrote:

> I'm just guessing, but I believe it might be faster because the PPC 
> processor is generally considered superior and faster to anything else. 
> I could be very wrong though.  For me the big question would still be 
> the user friendliness issue.  I have some serious questions about the 
> user friendliness of Linux that I will bring up one by one on the list. 
> The question in my mind is whether or not Apple as already considered 
> my issues and arrived at satisfactory more desirable user friendly 
> solutions.
>
> Jeff Mings wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the informative endorsement, Scott!
>>
>>    I have to ask, though,  how is graphic performance (i.e., with 
>> Aqua), compared to ppc Linux or Yellow Dog Linux on the same hardware? 
>> E.g., if I run several sets of graphic filters or script-fu in Gimp, 
>> how would the fastest linux version be likely to compare against OSX 
>> in terms of completion times?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> R Scott Belford wrote:
>>
>>> 24/7 for weeks on end I run a multi-user gui on top of a freebsd 
>>> core.  My wife logs in and word processes, emails, and surfs.  I 
>>> login, read email, surf, and do some word processing.  I listen to my 
>>> music wirelessly from a debian file server on my lan.  When I want 
>>> them, I have outstanding video and image editing software.  When I 
>>> print, I have a remote queue on a redhat box setup most easily 
>>> through the gui.  I entered the queue name, the ip address, and what, 
>>> if any, filter I wanted.  When I want it, I have a shell.  Behind my 
>>> happy gui, apache is serving web pages(locally), samba is sharing 
>>> files with my windoze box, ssh is ready for me to login, the ftpd is 
>>> ready to go should I summon its services.
>>>
>>> I use OSX.  I have for about half a year now.  I use it "hard".  It 
>>> is everything you want an os to be.  I have an original ibook with an 
>>> airport card.  It is all older hardware.  Now that osx has had a few 
>>> revisions, it gets a serious two thumbs up.  Original imacs can be 
>>> had for not much more than 600.  Good stuff.  I think it exceeds user 
>>> friendly.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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