A Slow Tiger

Now installing 10.4 on my machine at work . . . It turns out there were a bunch of hard drives sitting around doing nothing, so I tossed one in there and am now preparing to enter the modern age. (Pretty much everything in the office is still on OS 9, ack.)

I’m not exactly spoiled for speed. My PowerBook is running at just 867MHz, and my machine at home, even bumped with a new CPU, is at 1.2GHz. But this work box is a 450MHz G4, and it’s got the old 16MB video card in it still. Sl-o-o-o-w. It remains to be seen whether this will be more usable than 9.2.2 (which, after years of tweaking, is fairly stable and certainly a lot more responsive.)

In two days I turn 35. What should I ask for on this momentous occasion? :-)

08/15/2005 | work | Comments

4 Responses to “A Slow Tiger”

  1. Posted by: hanser - 08/16/2005

    You might start by asking for a real computer. ;)

  2. Posted by: Durf - 08/16/2005

    Yeah . . . The problem is that everyone in the company needs one, basically. Lots of money to spend that isn’t easy to dig up in the budget. Maybe I’ll get lucky and a crate of Mac Minis will fall off the back of a delivery truck in front of our building. ;-)

  3. Posted by: hanser - 08/16/2005

    You misunderstand. Macs don’t qualify as real computers. ;)

  4. Posted by: Durf - 08/17/2005

    Bah, shouldn’t you be off updating your virus definitions? :-P

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