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From: km2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth E. Mohnkern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: My SE+7.0 seems like "molasses in January"?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 14:14:25 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Brad Banerd@bcars222.bnr writes:
>I have an SE with 4M and recently tried out system 7.  I found that a
test page
> of mine took 2min30sec to print on my laserwriter LS compared to 45sec
under 6
>.0.7 .  I also found that the system even had trouble keeping up with
fast typi
>ng in WP 2.0.1 .  I was forced to roll back to 6.0.7 in order avoid
being throt
>tled by my wife!	
> 
>q.1 Why would system 7 be so slow? (cache was 128k,"regular" SE(ie"leaded"))
>    Since few people seem to be mentioning speed as a problem could it
be    so
>mething peculiar to my setup?  I would be delighted to find out that
system 7.0
> is useful to Macs without the 030.
> 

For what it's worth, I can sympathize with you.

I have a similar setup: SE, 4M, using system 7. I switch on the Mac and
go get a drink, go to the bathroom, see what's on tv, then go back to
the Mac to wait (still longer) for it to finish booting. Whew!
Everything I do in the finder is slow: copying files, opening folders,
getting info...

I've turned off "show folder sizes" in list views, and will try out this
new "no zoom rects" thing, but don't expect that it will help much. The
new Finder is SLOW on an SE. (Mine and Brad's, at least.)

I'm saving my pennies for an SE/30 upgrade. And a printer.

ken mohnkern # the graphics deli # the robotics institute # pittsburgh pa