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| Click here to select a new forum. | | OS 8 vs 8.1 | Posted by: blackbird on 2008-01-30 19:02:08
I have OS 8 installed on my PowerBooks but was wondering if it's worth upgrading to 8.1. From your experience is there a significant improvement from 8 to 8.1?
| Posted by: tomlee59 on 2008-01-30 21:45:30
Aside from bug fixes and some speedup for PPC Macs, 8.1 also introduced HFS+, and other improvements. A good discussion can be found at
http://www.macintouch.com/m81.html
You may also wish to read Apple's own documentation for the 8.1 upgrade.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30345#English
Short version of the story: It's free, it can be faster, and it's stable. I always upgrade to 8.1.
| Posted by: Flash! on 2008-01-31 02:25:00
me too - especially because you get HFS+
| Posted by: Blessed Cheesemaker on 2008-02-02 02:57:26
me too - especially because you get HFS+ Me three--bug fixes and HFS+.
I can't remember if it made any difference in battery life...it was OS 8.6 that first seemed to show real improvement with that.
With an old 68k Powerbook, I imagine the real question is, do you have enough RAM to make the upgrade to a more RAM-hogging OS worth it.
In the old days, when I was thrilled to get an 8MB RAM upgrade for $200, the answer was no...I would have stuck with OS 7.6.1. Today, I am assuming you have the RAM maxed out, and that is an academic discussion.
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