I run System 7.1 on my SE, and there are no significant "speed-related" issues with it (although I must agree, System 6, especially version 6.0.8, runs very well with the 68000 processor).A 68000 is ok with OS 6.x and the old software designed for it. I assume a faster 68040 would be to speed up software designed for an 040.
Regardless of what your uses are (in my case, it's to read old files & play old games), and how you got it, you can only squeeze so much out of a tube before that tube ruptures, and your computer is reduced to shit.First off, I didn't buy this machine: I found it in the garbage. My uses of it are a combination of nostalgia and actual productivity, mainly with MORE 3.1.
I'm assuming that the IBM drive has a faster RPM rating than the HP drive. If it's the other way around, perhaps there are defects with your HP drive (or the 575' board cannot handle it).My new HP SureStore disk feels considerably slower. Yet I believe it has a faster transfer speed. Odd..
hook u an external scsi HD (format if necessary), copy your system to the external, copy Speed disk to the externalLC_575 wrote :I have tried using Norton Speed Disk, but the program requires a special startup disk to work.
not compatible with quadra AV'sThe common PPC PDS cards are for Quadra machines.
They *did* sell them for LCs. There was even an Apple-branded one. Here's a link. And here's another link. Apparently Apple's fit in the 68040 socket, not the expansion slot. Finding one nowadays might be a problem, of course.LC PPC PDS cards are either rare on non existant. The common PPC PDS cards are for Quadra machines.
These are my results, in the first one I have my current HP notebook as well as my old netbook.(acer aspire one, the 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD model)http://www.poopr.org/images/84i45pzj51oyitwyu09.pngMy four-year-old Core Duo desktop scores something like 20 times faster than a Quadra 605 in Speedometer 4.0 under BasiliskII, and even faster in Sheepshaver. If you simply want to run old Mac software rather than specifically play with an old Mac it's probably the best option there is. Even a wimpy little Netbook will be far faster than any 68k Mac.
Well, maybe, but the 575/475/605s were the last, best and fastest of the LC series.In my opinion, the LC-series stank