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I certainly find it faster than OS9. And more enjoyable. And prettier

Can't wait till people start implementing some of the REALLY fucking cool features of Cocoa/Objective C programming

-Paws

Is OSX is faster than 9.2?

On my powerbook book g4/500 i run OSX and 9.2
and i do not see a big difference in speed.
I mostly still use 9.2 because it "feels" faster.
I think this is because of the 8 mb videocard.
Everytime apple promises a faster OS(panther) but what they
forget to say is you need a bigger and faster computer(mac)
to run it on. I am glad i can still use my 9.2 system.
Do do don,t believe the hype.

Greetinz....Jamm

Well since Live 3 won't be AltiVec optimized, then using OS 10.3 Panther might provide a significant performance boost alternative instead.
Here are some posts from an OS 10.3 developer about the greatly improved performance of Panther including much more efficient Core Audio:

http://www.pstheme.com/cgi-bin/think/ik ... f=15;t=918

Here's a quote from the Think Secret site:

"do you have any impression about how panther performance is on older machines, late G3/early G4?

I've tested Panther 7B28 on my G4/500 AGP with an Rage 128 Pro and now a 8500 (QE on). It is much faster, even non QE Macs will see a way noticeable difference; I should say especially non-QE Macs. My initial post on this thread explains why. Every Mac will see a major boost because of the code enhancements made to the system. As an example, on a 1GHz Mac, OS 10.3's iTunes playback now takes less than 1% of the CPU! OS X's improvements mean that every one of your Mac Apps will have a lot more processor time to themselves. For App that dynamically link to the public frameworks, they will notice an even greater performance boost."

Man, make this a new topic, if this is true it is VERY good news!!

Greetinz..

By and large the vibe is that the speed jump between 10.1 and 10.2 is noticeably larger than the jump between 10.2 and 10.3.

That said, 10.3 feels snappier overall.

-Alex