Let1kWindowsBloom: check the cholesterol of your Mac.

[Protools5LEGuy]

MDD 866 dual 2 Gigs of RAM. Asus Geforce 2 MX 64 Megs. Audiomedia III. No color depth options(missing panel).

VNC + dragthing + stuffit helper: 8 seconds

Just Finder +dragthing + stuffit helper : 6 seconds


iMac G3 350 Indigo 256 MByte. ATI Rage 128 PRO 8 Mb

Millions of colors 14 seconds

Thousands of colors 10 seconds

256 colors: 9 seconds

[urdvurk]

Quicksilver 733MHz @ 867MHz, Geforce2 MX 32MB: 5.18 seconds. Color depth did not make a difference?
Extensions off: 8.82 seconds.

[MacTron]

Quicksilver 733MHz @ 867MHz, Geforce2 MX 32MB: 5.18 seconds. Color depth did not make a difference?
Extensions off: 8.82 seconds.

Yes, with a lower color depth you will obtain a better result. If you start with extensions Off, The video acceleration is disabled. That's why you obtain a worse result.

[urdvurk]

That makes sense, but I meant that with mine it did not make a difference. I tried millions, thousands and 256 colors, got low 5s in all three. Probably something else being the bottleneck, the processor maybe?

[Knezzen]

Getting this on my 1GHZ PowerBook G4 Titanium. 1GB RAM, ATi Mobility Radeon 9000 64mb, 32GB KingSpec SSD. Stock OS9 ATi extensions. Running 1280x854@24bit.

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Total time to create and dispose 1000 windows: 6 seconds (6630934 microseconds)

[torvan]

iMac G4/700 mhz, 768 MB RAM.

16 seconds but also with Classilla, BBEdit, iTunes, and Photoshop7 running.
8 seconds with just Classilla up.

1024 x 768 32MB.

[torvan]

Adding to the results, my 2003 MDD, 2GB RAM, Sonnet PCI SATA controller, Crucial SATA dive, and a TI 4600 128MB DVI card.

Total time to create and dispose 1000 windows: 6 seconds (6546668 microseconds)

[MacTron]

eMac G4 @1.5Ghz 1280x960 @24 bits 2.17 sec.

[Jubadub]

On top of booting faster via CP/Extension caching, I wonder if Startup Doubler also improves responsiveness, if at all.

Edit: Another thing to wonder is what is the "minimal" OS 9 installation we can have (in terms of CPs and Extensions) while still able to do most things comfortably. Or, in other words, "optimal" installs. For me, GPU drivers, Ethernet, USB Overdrive, FinderPop and Default Folder should more or less cover most of my needs... Too bad StuffIt also seems to require an extension (StuffIt Engine), since programs like MacZip still do a great job without any of that.

Makes me want to have multiple System folders. I.e.: "Fast", "Balanced", "Full".