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I picked up the 10.1 CD at my university bookstore. It was still incredibly slow. I'm pretty sure I was using it on a beige G3 PPC with 256MB of RAM. I thought

by galago 5y ago

I picked up the 10.1 CD at my university bookstore. It was still incredibly slow. I'm pretty sure I was using it on a beige G3 PPC with 256MB of RAM. I thought it was super cool, the new version of NeXT, but I was still doing actual work on a PC running RedHat or Win2000.

salamandersauce 5y ago
It didn't really become fast until 10.2 and even then you needed a GPU that supported Quartz Extreme to get that. My G3 Imac never ran it well because of that. I had to disable basically every graphical effect to get anything remotely resembling speed. Mac OS 9 on the same machine even with an eighth the RAM (64MB) was way way more responsive. Unfortunately even by the time I got that machine in 2005, the OS 9 browser situation was a problem for a lot of sites.