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Re:Mac OS 9 by dieulot on Monday December 05, 2022 @01:22PM (#33869489)
Modern macOS is a significant counterexample to that claim. Most of it is janky. Zooming and dezooming the Finder is not something a 2.5 years old MacBook Air (€1200) can keep up with smoothly, for instance. Opening a Save dialog takes over 3 seconds, and expanding/collapsing the file explorer in it is comically janky.
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Re:Mac OS 9 by ace2358 on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:26PM (#33870545)
None of this sounds right based on my experience.

Wondering which model you have? Is it fanless? I’ve never used until o got my 2022 m2 air. It’s the best computer I’ve ever used.

Before that, 10 years of Mac Pro, and they’ve all been old (2010 models) and fast.

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Re:Mac OS 9 by dieulot on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:08PM (#33871143)
MacBook Air early 2020 base model.

The 2010 Mac Pro doesn’t run macOS 11+, that might be its X factor.

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Re:Mac OS 9 by ace2358 on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:06PM (#33873233)
Is that a fanless intel machine?

The Mac Pro can run newer os with the help of open core. I can do many things with it like run Mac osX 10.6 using my modern amd rx570.

I can also run macos 12+ which I do. It runs great!

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Re:Mac OS 9 by ezfe on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:27PM (#33870571)
That's simply not true. A 2019 MacBook Air has no trouble with any of these things. If you're having trouble with these, something is seriously wrong with your computer.
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Re:Mac OS 9 by dieulot on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:00PM (#33871034)
Proof: https://dieulot.fr/~temp/Screen%20Recording%202022-12-05%20a...

It’s more pronounced while recording but that’s the idea.

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Re:Mac OS 9 by ezfe on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:03PM (#33872540)
Ah, I misunderstood what you were referring to. Now that I understand, I'm less surprised. For some reason I was thinking File I/O.

The Early 2020 MacBook Air is a joke from a CPU/Graphics perspective - even compared to other Intel Macs.

I still think something's wrong with your computer, as I have worked with multiple of that model and they weren't nearly this bad (even accounting for screen recording) - perhaps your cooling is worse?

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