osx being so damned slow

[Loco3KGT]

Ok. I'm trying to do a class project in Excel on OSX. I spent so much time looking at a damn colorwheel as OSX tries to draw/destroy it's pretty little windows that a good 25% of my time is lost. Is there absolutely no way for this to be faster? Or do I have to wait for OSX 10.2 which is going to serve up a whopping 5% speed increase to all mac's with anything less than a Radeon 7500 or Geforce2? I've got a 500Mhz G3 iBook with 384MB of RAM. If this crap keeps up I'm going back to linuxppc. It's not just excel either, I get the damn wheel in AIM. Even as I type this I'm sitting here waiting for OSX to keep up with my typing. Damn this makes me miss OS9's performance when I got my first iBook back in Oct 2000.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

What version of OSX do you have? I heard that OSx.1 brought up speed significantly.. Can't you just reboot into OS9 and do it from there? Of course that is if you have an OS9 compatible version of Excel.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

You may also want to try a Mac forum like here

 

[FOBSIDE]

AIM is sluggish in OSX right now. thats not OSX. You might want to try Adium or Fire instead of AIM for now. as far as excel goes, i dont seem to have problems. I have a Ti G4 400, which is comparable to the G3 500.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: FOBSIDE
AIM is sluggish in OSX right now. thats not OSX. You might want to try Adium or Fire instead of AIM for now. as far as excel goes, i dont seem to have problems. I have a Ti G4 400, which is comparable to the G3 500.

I havent had any problems with AIM on my OS X machine (mine is a G4-733)
also like Gonzo said, OS 10.1 made a big differance, I didnt like OS X until 10.1 was released

-Spy

 

[n0cmonkey]

Both Adium and Fire work great

Mozilla is a little slow on OS X. It sounds like you have one of the 66mhz FSB iBooks. I personallly think that is one of the major bottlenecks in the iBooks.

 

[bubba]

If it can't keep up with your typing there is something wrong... What happens at a fresh boot? Is it faster then, then it slows down as you use it? Or can you out-type it from a fresh boot?