Another Amiga question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 17:17:04 2001

> At 07:22 PM 7/19/01 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >Though as I was cursing this morning, even with MacOS 9.1 a Mac can't format
> >a floppy and do something else. I love my G4/450, but that's just plain
> >pathetic.
>
> And I thought that having dual processors on my G4 would have
> some effect allowing doing more than one thing at once, but
> it doesn't. I bought it (that is, Apple sold it) months before
> OS X was shipped. OS X will use the dual processors. A few
> odd PhotoShop plugins use it. The distributed.net client uses it.
> Other than that, I wasted a few hundred bucks.
>
> - John

Yes, BUT this has been a known problem dating back to the Quad-Processor 3rd
Party Mac's that were made around '95. How good of a job is OS X doing at
dual processors? One would hope pretty good, but I honestly don't know. I
bought OS X the day it came out (and have every beta ever released going
back to the OPENSTEP 4.2 "Prelude to Rhapsody" release), but I've barely
used it, it just isn't ready for my everyday use. By this Fall/Winter it's
starting to sound like it will be. I've got to admit I'm looking forward to
the release of Microsoft Office for it, with that, Eudora, Netscrape, and
eXodus I should be able to switch. Though in the long run I'll also need to
upgrade Photoshop and some other apps. Who knows, I'm happy with 9.1, and
might just stay there for another year or two, if not longer. After all it
does everything I need, and something tells me it's going to be a minimum of
another year before I feel the need to upgrade to a newer system. I made
about 2.8 years with my 8500/180, and it looks like I'll do even better with
the G4/450 as they're just finally starting to come out with systems that
should be significantly faster than my system (something to realize is my
system is from the very first batch of G4/450's sold). However, unlike the
8500/180, it doesn't look like I'll be skipping a processor family (though
who knows I might).

                        Zane
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 17:17:04 BST