Ben Kennedy wrote:
You're hankering for the Q2D Extreme speedup that Ars benchmarked, aren't you. ;)
Hee! You're on to me. :D I actually have been looking forward to this since before I switched to the Mac platform. I bought my 1.67 Powerbook back in February and had the VRAM maxed to 128 MB specifically in anticipation of Tiger.
If anyone is using DB on a particularly slow machine and can document particular sluggishness, feel free to let me know so I can prioritize some optimization.
I don't notice any sluggishness in operation, but even on my 1.67 Powerbook w/ 2 GB RAM, Doggiebox is definitely slow to launch, even with the splash screen turned off. I doubt that's a screen drawing issue, though...
(I used to test on a 500 Mhz iBook but I gave that one away to my brother last Christmas... my slowest machine now is my dual 867 G4, which I do most of my work on, which still happens to feel faster than my brand-new 1.5 GHz Powerbook.)
I find that hard drives are the real bottleneck in most modern systems. Your dual G4 likely has a 7200 rpm disk, and the Powerbook only a 5400 rpm disk, so the dual G4 probably feels a little snappier. Adding RAM to the PB may help by reducing disk caching.