uniserver
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i have the eMac Mac OS 9.22 installed and i am dual booting OSX 10.4.11
Everything in Tiger is fully updated.
I've been using it lately as my every day computer.
mainly because i sold my 2.7 Ghz G5, and now have the MDD Hooked into my 20" Apple Cinema Display.
installed is 2gb ram and Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 120 gig EIDE HD,
Safari seems to fly,Youtube vid's come in great, facebook works great.
Granted the G5 had leopard 10.5.8 installed, 2.7 ghz, 5gig ram, 160 gig western digital,
The G5 felt slow and sluggish , and anything you did that required a little processor - the fans would spin up like a jet engine and then spin back down.
Its really no different from any of the many other G5 Power Mac's i'v had…
Really, using this MDD as my main system is mainly accidental mixed with some lazyness,
but as i'm using it, its showing me it's fast and works dam good…
I'm thinking because all the software its running is optimized for its hardware!
The G5 (seems) (to me) like it's stuck in some funny 32bit Compatibility Mode all the time.
All the software was/is 32 bit, the G5 was a 64 bit cpu, but would run 32 bit code, but was a SLUG.
With the Drag strip analogy if your specialized app was properly written for the G5, (then it would scream)
That is why this pretty old Dual CPU MDD Powermac, Feels Fast and runs great.
Basically, i'm not moving it, just going to keep using it.
it's swiftly doing everything i need.
I know people like to talk up the machines they happen to be using at the time.
but for my use this MDD is getting it done for me.