> I ran OS X on day one of the public beta, on a blue and white iMac, and I don't recall its performance being bad (apart from the absence of sound). I remember

> I ran OS X on day one of the public beta, on a blue and white iMac, and I don't recall its performance being bad (apart from the absence of sound). I remember it being amazing It was amazing and dog slow. It wasn’t until the Intel transition that OS X was on par with classic on “snappiness” for me. Even if a G3 was probably dozens of times faster than a 68k, the window server was doing so much more drawing there was really no competition. Every single menu and window were composited in real time with transparency and drop shadows. Phew. I remember running a patcher app (haxies, shadow killer, something like that) to remove all drop shadows and make the damn thing usable.