Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs.umn.edu!oleary From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 7.0 on an LC is sloow... Message-ID: <3933@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 15 May 91 22:59:43 GMT Article-I.D.: ux.3933 References: <28309573.9100@orion.oac.uci.edu> <28548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services Lines: 51 In article <28548@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> dth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower) writes, among other things: >I installed 7.0 on my ci last night (8MB RAM, 80 HD) and there *is* a >noticeable degradation of system speed. When redrawing the finder >screen, you can see each individual folder being redrawn. This is funny. While I see posts complaining about the speed of System 7 on the LC and IIci, I'm sitting at my SE still running 7b4 and have noticed only minimals speed loss (yeah, I know, 9" B&W). I was considering an upgrade when I had first heard that System 7 was slow. Now that Apple has lowered the upgrade prices and I've worked with System 7 for a few months, I'm still only considering it. >I'm not impressed with 7.0. It does have some nice >features--customizing icons, aliases, etc--but overall the things that >it provides I don't need. The balloon help is a real pain (although it >was neat to see it working with Excel 3.0), and why in the world would I >want labels? "red is hot, blue is cool, purple is personal"; this has >got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen! I don't use balloon help or labels either. I haven't found a use for them yet, but that doesn't mean that many people don't need those features now or that I will never find them useful in the future. BTW, there is a Labels control panel where you can change the "hot, cool, project x" text. I don't know, but I'd imagine you can change the colors as well. >7.0 seems to be best suited for networks; it allows subscribing and >sharing across the network. For the single user, though, until more >applications take advantage of it, I can see no real use for it. Whoa! Let me get this straight . . . you've had System 7 installed for AN ENTIRE DAY and you're making this kind of blanket statement!?!? Geez, get back to us once you've *used* it for awhile. >I'm going back to 6.0.5. Oh, I see. Have fun. Well, have as much fun as you can . . . --------- Doc P.S.: There's more "cool" in System 7 than Windows will ever have. ********************** Signature Block : Version 2.5 ********************* * | OK, one last time . . . This is * * "Was it love, or was it the idea | an egg . . . This is an egg in a * * of being in love?" -- PF | frying pan . . . Any questions? * * (BTW, which one *is* Pink?) | * * | --->oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu<--- * ****************** Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary ********************