imac 15" (G3) / imac 17" (G4) YDL performance?

[Chaz McGarvey]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 04:01 PM, jaspal kallar wrote:

> I'm looking closely at buying an imac 1GHz 17" and installing YDL 3.0.
>
> I just wondered what the performance was like with only the standard
> 256 MB RAM and how the performance compared with OS X?
> My opinion of OS X is that it seems slow in GUI response compared
> to my 256 RAM Athlon 500 Mhz pc (4 years old) with Suse Linux.

Assuming you aren't a heavy gamer or some other professional creator, 
256 MB should be just fine.  With memory as cheap as it is though, I 
usually recommend at least 512 MB just so it's that much less likely 
you'll have to resort to virtual memory.  I haven't been using YDL for 
very long, but it doesn't seem to require very much memory (compared to 
Mac OS X) even with X-Windows.

About GUI performance comparisons, I don't see any serious GUI 
performance problems on my computer with either OS X or YDL (with a 
PowerMac 2x800Mhz, 1.5G RAM, 2x80G HD).  The Mac OS X interface used to 
be slow, but since Quartz Extreme was introduced and the graphics card 
started handling a lot more of the drawing, I haven't had any 
complaints.  Aqua is a lot more polished, but it doesn't really matter 
to me.  Whatever works, I say, and they both work fine for me.

> Also can anybody comment on the screen clarity in YDL 3.0 compared
> to in OS X (which I have seen in the stores)? Is DVD playback ok?
>
> Can I use the same apple keyboard and if so where are the { and the }
> keys?  I could not see them when I was at the stores here in Sweden
> ( A swedish keyboard).

There shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't use the Apple keyboard.

> I searched in this mailing list and other places and it seems at least 
> to me that the
> hardware is well supported by YDL 3.0 apart from the modem.

Hope that answers a few of your questions,
Chaz