[geeks] I think I need to change my pants... ;^)

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:27:03PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> I bought an ibook recently.  600MHz G3.  It was fine with 128Mb in OS 9,
> but a bit of a dog in OS X.  I added another half a gig, taking it to
> 640Mb, and it runs very nicely.  I also have 512Mb in my imac.  Oddly, the
> imac, despite having the same CPU, feels a *lot* slower.  No idea why.

How old?  See this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106154

 "QuickTime movies may play with a lower frame rate than expected. Games and other software that utilize hardware graphics acceleration or OpenGL may perform more slowly than expected. [...] Further Mac OS X support for the graphic accelerator chipsets [listed] is not planned."

    * ATI RAGE II+
    * ATI RAGE IIc
    * ATI RAGE Pro
    * ATI RAGE Pro Turbo
    * ATI RAGE LT Pro
    * ATI RAGE Mobility

Affected Models:

    * Power Macintosh G3 (Desktop, Mini Tower, and All-In-One models)
    * iMac (233, 266, and 333 MHz models)
    * PowerBook G3 Series
    * PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze Keyboard)
    * iBook (original)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX