system 7.1 or 7.5
Rattavut Sae-Chua
advantages on system 7.5 ?
thanks
Ron Owens
David_...@mail.utexas.edu (David Hurlbut) wrote:
> In article <rsc-291295...@sf-pm3-5.slip.net>, r...@slip.net
> (Rattavut Sae-Chua) wrote:
>
> > Should I upgrade my PB 150 from system 7.1 to 7.5 ?, and what are the
> >
> > advantages on system 7.5 ?
> >
> I've been running 7.1.1 on a 520 for a year and a half, and so far I've
> found no compelling reason to move to 7.5. You can download a few
> shareware extensions that give 7.1.1 some of 7.5's more useful features.
> This makes some of 7.5's standard features OPTIONAL on 7.1.1, which means
> you can selectively disable them if you need to tweak more free RAM out of
> your system -- very helpful when running Photoshop, or working on big
> documents in Word. (Conflict Catcher makes this incredibly easy.) I don't
> know how much you can trim 7.5's RAM usage. System 7.1.1 seems to crash
> less frequently, but I really don't have enough experience with 7.5 to say
> that with complete confidence.
>
> --
> David Hurlbut
> University of Texas at Austin
I've been running 7.5 on my desk Mac (at work) since its release. I've
been waiting for a good reason to put 7.5 on my powerbook (which is
running 7.1), but I have yet to find one.
Simon Kidd
> Should I upgrade my PB 150 from system 7.1 to 7.5 ?, and what are the
>
> advantages on system 7.5 ?
>
> thanks
System 7.5 verses 7.1 isnt a major upgrade like win 3.1 to win95. On a
PB180 I found that system *7.5.1* didnt use more RAM than 7.11 but was
considerably was more stable. It also comes with a bunch of other goodies
for you to play with.
Simon
David Hurlbut
> Should I upgrade my PB 150 from system 7.1 to 7.5 ?, and what are the
>
> advantages on system 7.5 ?
>
Mike Mangold
> System 7.5 verses 7.1 isnt a major upgrade like win 3.1 to win95. On a
> PB180 I found that system *7.5.1* didnt use more RAM than 7.11 but was
> considerably was more stable. It also comes with a bunch of other goodies
> for you to play with.
Does 7.5 take much longer to boot that 7.1 on your PB180? My PB180 loads much
faster than a friend's PB5300cs running 7.5. I was interested to read that you
find 7.5 to be more stable.
Read Gildner-Blinn
> Should I upgrade my PB 150 from system 7.1 to 7.5 ?, and what are the
>
> advantages on system 7.5 ?
>
> thanks
>
>
I'm running 7.5 on a 520 and it's beautiful--but I have 20 mb RAM.
R
The New Number Two
: In article <rsc-291295...@sf-pm3-5.slip.net>, r...@slip.net
: (Rattavut Sae-Chua) wrote:
: > Should I upgrade my PB 150 from system 7.1 to 7.5 ?, and what are the
: >
: > advantages on system 7.5 ?
: >
: I've been running 7.1.1 on a 520 for a year and a half, and so far I've
: found no compelling reason to move to 7.5. You can download a few
: shareware extensions that give 7.1.1 some of 7.5's more useful features.
: This makes some of 7.5's standard features OPTIONAL on 7.1.1, which means
: you can selectively disable them if you need to tweak more free RAM out of
: your system -- very helpful when running Photoshop, or working on big
: documents in Word. (Conflict Catcher makes this incredibly easy.) I don't
: know how much you can trim 7.5's RAM usage. System 7.1.1 seems to crash
: less frequently, but I really don't have enough experience with 7.5 to say
: that with complete confidence.
: --
: David Hurlbut
: University of Texas at Austin
in addition to and support of david's comments, i also run some of 7.5's
control panels on my powerbook 180 with no problems. some, like mouse
and map, run flawlessly. others, like apple menu options and extensions
manager, prompt "this was not designed to work with your older software"
when you alter the settings, but otherwise cause no problems.
i'd say stick with 7.1 and add on some of the the 7.5 stuff to see if it
works, then make up your mind if there's anything you need to do that
only 7.5 (not a mix-mash of 7.5 and 7.1) can offer.
jefferson gray