OS 8 vs 8.1

[blackbird]

I have OS 8 installed on my PowerBooks but was wondering if it's worth upgrading to 8.1. From your experience is there a significant improvement from 8 to 8.1?

 

[tomlee59]

Aside from bug fixes and some speedup for PPC Macs, 8.1 also introduced HFS+, and other improvements. A good discussion can be found at

http://www.macintouch.com/m81.html

You may also wish to read Apple's own documentation for the 8.1 upgrade.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30345#English

Short version of the story: It's free, it can be faster, and it's stable. I always upgrade to 8.1.

 

[Flash!]

me too - especially because you get HFS+

 

[Blessed Cheesemaker]

me too - especially because you get HFS+

Me three--bug fixes and HFS+.

I can't remember if it made any difference in battery life...it was OS 8.6 that first seemed to show real improvement with that.

With an old 68k Powerbook, I imagine the real question is, do you have enough RAM to make the upgrade to a more RAM-hogging OS worth it.

In the old days, when I was thrilled to get an 8MB RAM upgrade for $200, the answer was no...I would have stuck with OS 7.6.1. Today, I am assuming you have the RAM maxed out, and that is an academic discussion.