From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Sat Feb 28 2004 - 12:29:25 PST
On Feb 28, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:
> On 24-feb-04, at 7:51, Jim Witte wrote:
>> It's sad when I click on a menu in Panther and it *still* takes at
>> least 0.1 second to pop up. With computers as fast as they are now in
>> terms of raw Mhz, I expect simple GUI operations to be absolutely
>> instantaneous.
It certainly is on any relatively modern hardware (my Powertower
pro(c1995) G3/450 with 512 of ram and Radeon PCI is totally responsive
and "instantaneous").
>
> Though I think this subject ran it's course by now I had to chime in on
> this one, if your menus don't pop up instantaneous there's something
> wrong with your OS installation,
Or you just have a slow old machine... My g3/233 imac with 128 meg(ATI
RAge IIc) isn't instantaneous.
Panther clearly has improved performance even on this older bottom of
line hardware.
Marty
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