Panther

[danaeris]

Ever since I got the new laptop, which SHOULD be way faster (hardware wise), I've found that it is VASTLY slower than the old laptop. Even though the old one was a G3.

The only explanation I have for this is that the new one is running Panther instead of OS X.

Has anyone who upgraded to Panther found that their computer moved much slower? Or is it possible there's something wrong with mine?

Comments

[earthdog.livejournal.com]

My G3 iBook has been much faster with Panther.

[random-vamp.livejournal.com]

Haven't upgraded yet, but technologically there shouldn't be a decrease in performance from Panther as I believe they actually made some performance enhancements and the core didn't substantially change. Do you have as much RAM in the new laptop? Have you gone through the settings to make sure there isn't a bunch of stuff turned on that you don't need?

Anyway, if you bring it over sometime I can look it over if you can't figure it out...

It's not you

[stuntviolist.livejournal.com]

I upgraded my G4 laptop a month or so ago. In some ways it's better and faster, but it crashes now. Not like a windows machine, but it's happened 3 or 4 times since the upgrade. It only crashed once before upgrading (I've had the machine for about a year).

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

OS X Panther (10.3.x) is more ram intensive than OS X Jaguar (10.2.x) was, so if the laptop has the exact same amount of RAM, the OS will be using more of it. If it's too low, well, the machine will be forced to page to disk more often, which will slow things down dramatically.

[bk2w.livejournal.com]

I've found 10.3 to be just as fast, if not a touch faster, than 10.2 on my 700Mhz iBook.

Both OSes are very RAM intensive, though. If your new machine has less ram than the old, that could be the bottleneck. Given the price of RAM, I'd highly recommend making sure the machine as >512MB.

My G5

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

is markedly faster with Panther than is was with Jaguar.

But it's a G5, so I don't think that it is a particularly good example.