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It felt much slower than the Dells I would use in the college's computer lab. These things were not performant out of the gate, given OS 9 totally well: sucked,

It felt much slower than the Dells I would use in the college's computer lab. These things were not performant out of the gate, given OS 9 totally well: sucked, and OS X itself released a year+ later was not heavily optimized and nothing else ran natively, so you were running everything under the OS 9 env anyways. I think people forget the incremental improvements in optimization of the whole stack that was done and punted off as features. There's an old video of Steve Jobs showing off resizing a window in OS X by the dragging the corner and marveling that it would do that so fluidly and not tear all over the place like the previous version.

anthk 4y ago
By 2000-2001 OSX was much better than W98 and even WXP for media production.
- justinator 4y ago
  You may be misremembering the timeline of OS X releases as OS X 10.0 only came out in March of 2001. It took a while for Cocoa apps to mature.
  - anthk 4y ago
    Ah, yes, sorry. 2001-2002 then. XP in 2002 was taking W98 over, and yet OSX felt superior. Ditto with Linux and KDE3 and a good video and sound card and the -rt kernel. 2.4 or 2.6 preferabily, with Cinepaint and Cinelerra.
    - justinator 4y ago
      It's hard for me to remember, as I didn't do much video back then and I'm not sure when Cocoa version of Premiere came out (or when the Final Cuts did either - which seemed far more popular - how things change!). I did a lot of work in PS and it was certainly better in every way on the G4, but running on OS X was a bit hit/miss as plugins and filters lagged behind. It was real messy for a few years. Not being able to get a fastish G4 in a laptop and never a G5 certainly didn't help. Who would have guessed the jump to Intel would be such a saving grace. Man video was so weird back then. Remember needing to go to like, a special render farm to output your completed Final Cut project? Or local racks of XServes? Or just a weirdo mishmash local network?
      - anthk 4y ago
        People just ran cluster of Linuxes as render farms for 3D media and often with Cinepaint for cinema with a mix of OSX machines.

anthk 4y ago

By 2000-2001 OSX was much better than W98 and even WXP for media production.

justinator 4y ago
You may be misremembering the timeline of OS X releases as OS X 10.0 only came out in March of 2001. It took a while for Cocoa apps to mature.
- anthk 4y ago
  Ah, yes, sorry. 2001-2002 then. XP in 2002 was taking W98 over, and yet OSX felt superior. Ditto with Linux and KDE3 and a good video and sound card and the -rt kernel. 2.4 or 2.6 preferabily, with Cinepaint and Cinelerra.
  - justinator 4y ago
    It's hard for me to remember, as I didn't do much video back then and I'm not sure when Cocoa version of Premiere came out (or when the Final Cuts did either - which seemed far more popular - how things change!). I did a lot of work in PS and it was certainly better in every way on the G4, but running on OS X was a bit hit/miss as plugins and filters lagged behind. It was real messy for a few years. Not being able to get a fastish G4 in a laptop and never a G5 certainly didn't help. Who would have guessed the jump to Intel would be such a saving grace. Man video was so weird back then. Remember needing to go to like, a special render farm to output your completed Final Cut project? Or local racks of XServes? Or just a weirdo mishmash local network?
    - anthk 4y ago
      People just ran cluster of Linuxes as render farms for 3D media and often with Cinepaint for cinema with a mix of OSX machines.