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Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: Dummy on July 08, 2006, 05:22:02 PM
Am trying to convince friend of mine to upgrade to OS X but he is leery. Ever since he upgraded to OS 9.2.2 he experiences veery slow keystrokes when trying to compose email in his Entourage program. Gets extremely slow response until he does a restart - and then things seem to clear up.

Any clues onhow I can help him or advise him.
Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: MacHeadCase on July 08, 2006, 05:43:57 PM
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Welcome here! Hope you enjoy your stay!

It all depends on his Mac model. If it's a really old model, like for instance a Snow iMac, your friend might be better off with Panther. But for sure OS X in many cases is zippier than OS 9.
Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: D76 on July 08, 2006, 06:11:54 PM
Do you know how much RAM the machine has? It takes a lot, in comparison to OS 9, to run OS X.
Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: Dummy on July 09, 2006, 10:44:53 AM
QUOTE(MacHeadCase @ Jul 8 2006, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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Welcome here! Hope you enjoy your stay!

It all depends on his Mac model. If it's a really old model, like for instance a Snow iMac, your friend might be better off with Panther. But for sure OS X in many cases is zippier than OS 9.




QUOTE(MacHeadCase @ Jul 8 2006, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
welcome.gif

Welcome here! Hope you enjoy your stay!

It all depends on his Mac model. If it's a really old model, like for instance a Snow iMac, your friend might be better off with Panther. But for sure OS X in many cases is zippier than OS 9.




My friend's MAC is aa G4 PowerMac Tower  - got it in CY 2000  - I think it is an AGP model (??) and he has 640 mb RAM - running OS 9.2.2.
Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: weldiger on July 09, 2006, 05:38:54 PM
You have probably already told him to check the key repeat rate in the control panels.  It is in a different location in OS X but at times that will make a difference in either one for me.  Also under OS 9 and earlier, the setting on mouse speed might affect the typing rate.
If that doesn't help, I like This download which sounds like old manual typewriter, and he will 'think' he is typing faster! biggrin.gif

HTH
Title: sluggish keystrokes
Post by: krissel on July 11, 2006, 12:06:43 AM
This may apply. Go down about 2/3 of the page to find the discussion on Outlook and Entourage being very slow especially after waking from sleep. His tower is among those affected according to the Apple article.

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I'm running a beige G3 tower with Mac OS 9.2.2. Experienced the same typing slowdown (as reported by others) while running MS Entourage after waking the Mac from sleep. Downgrading the Apple CD-ROM driver to 1.4.4 and the Iomega Zip Driver to 6.0.8 seems to fix the problem. No need to upgrade to OS X as Apple's site recommends.


http://www.macwindows.com/outlook.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106742

Is your friend using any third party applications like TypeIt4Me? Sometimes they can slow things down if he doesn't have an updated version. Also the FaxSTF program is often cited as interfering with net related activities in OS 9 and early versions of X.