Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

OSX can place higher graphics demands on the computer, I resolved this 
by upgrading my video card (which you cannot do on a portable)

Actually, I replaced the video card, not because OSX wasn't 
functioning, it was actually nearly as fast as OS9. I actually replaced 
the video card to conform to the minimum system requirements of a video 
game I wanted to play. I noticed a vast improvement in the 'snappiness' 
of the OS, I feel I actually got speed increases over OS9.

Graphics rendering and the lack of higher end video cards does impact 
the overall performance of the machine. If you have an older laptop and 
you are doing low impact computing, like internet you won't notice the 
hit, but when you start to run more processor intensive software you're 
gonna notice the machine bogging down.

Operating systems, with time, are going to get more complex. People ask 
for more complex applications, and they also ask for more computing 
power and more powerful hardware architectures.

Eddie
IMS


On Wednesday, September 14, 2005, at 12:35  AM, GAmoore@... wrote:

> There are articles on this. X is a modern OS (the unix, and 
> multi-tasking, and memory management). I read an article by one of the 
> original Mac engineers who just died in the past few months, and he 
> was saying quite a few negative things about the new OS too. I think 
> the lack of responsiveness comes from the heavy graphics shell to make 
> things look pretty. I would prefer a ugly but fast mode without the 
> prettiness sometimes. X is so slow, that the titanium powerbook 550 
> that I got a few years ago, I would say is almost worthless as a 
> computing device because it gets so bogged down by X. But Apple sort 
> of forced people onto X by making their machines not boot into 9 
> anymore.