Pretty big statement!My dual 2.0 Ghz G5 is pretty snappy. Perhaps we're being a tadunrealistic in trying to run OSX on an older G4...
Actually I find it quite usable on my indigo G3 iMacs, certainly better than XP on PCs from the same era, so the reusability of old hardware for modern OSes is not that bad.
Apart from that, the question keeps popping up in my head: If your old software, OS and plugins were so good compared to the new stuff, why would one get a new computer in the first place? Again I read these complaints about apple "forcing" us to use OSX. But you only need it if you get a new computer too. And I am glad with this "forcing"; it prevents a lot of legacy problems since we don't need any gradual transitions between the outdated mechanisms of Classic OS and the modern ones of OSX.
Besides I don't understand this whole grudge with OSX being somewhat slower than OS9; when in the history of computers, was a newer and more versatile version of an operating system EVER faster than the old one? At most it would be about the same speed and that would only apply to operating systems that didn't do much operating in the first place (cp/m, ms-dos).
Maurits.