On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:31:20AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > On Thursday, Oct 10, 2002, at 19:38 US/Pacific, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > > Today, (after some discussions in my family) I was thinking if > > it was a good thing or not to get my iBook. Aside from it > > being expensive, and even though having 128MB more of memory > > than when I got the iBook (I now have 256MB) Apple's own > > operating system (even Jaguar) is *quite* slow with this > > computer.
OSX is a ram hog; I read somewhere that a single window with no decorations or contents takes something like ~20M of ram. A single terminal window from Terminal.app takes 75M under 10.1. Quartz extreme has helped offload the bloat into your video card. It's a good thing BSD has a nice VM system :) Once powermanagement gets working on my tibook, I'm switching to linux full time, it's like a free ram upgrade :) -Brett
