yes, I’ve timed it with a stopwatch so the accuracy is about +/- 0.5 seconds. Open it and it wakes also in about 1 second. Close the lid and the laptop goes to sleep in about 1 second. One of the benefits of OS X is the sleep function. This makes the laptop useless for presentations. Following on from the lack of nVidia drivers, video out isn’t supported. Ever tried using GNOME on a Powerbook 12″ with the default nv driver? Try moving a window around.
People often complain about the OS X UI being slow. There isn’t any 3D acceleration, 2D is just so-so. Getting an external USB wireless adaptor isn’t a good solution since you use up 1 USB port and you have something sticking out of your laptop. This has been beaten to death, but unless Broadcom releases the specs to the Airport Extreme chipsets, there’s very little hope of this problem ever going away. There are loads of problems with Linux that make it impractical to run it on my Powerbook as my default OS. All of this said, I still like OSX, but cannot abide the update/”upgrade” merry-go-round(even M$ & ISVs have better support for their “old” OSes), although it finally looks like Panther MAY have enough real new features to be an upgrade option, especially if resellers sell it for <<$130 a copy. Additionally, with the rates of growth developing/working with linux is more likely to generate saleable opportunities than working with OSX is. These items along with other issues caused me to move one of my machines as an experiment to linux, for speed and ability to remain up-to-date wrt security, development, etc. For yearly update fees, I certainly expect Apple to do optimizations and improvements that apply across the ENTIRE supported hardware spectrum, and not mainly focus on optimizations applicable only to the newest hardware, or another nail in the “new” “features” yearly upgrade treadmill. G3 machines has NEVER been what it should be or have been. Additionally support for older hardware, esp.
Personally I am disgusted by Apple’s annual expectation of significant additional cash for, more or less, nothing but security updates and a few other minor changes. If you’re going to run a Darwin based system, that is really no different than running linux or netbsd, or not at all like running OSX.Īnother problem is the high price of maintaining OSX with limited support for “old” versions by Apple, and subsequent drop of update support from both Apple and many ISVs.
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