What Mac OS is best for my Takky?
This one has to be broken down a bit. 🙂 My blanket recommendations are 7.1 on anything with a 68K and 9.1 on anything with a PowerPC, but I need to qualify those somewhat. The advantages and disadvantages listed in the Mystic section apply to any 68K-powered Takky CCs as well. Using System 7.x or OS 7.6.x on any of the PPC-powered boards is a waste of time. The OS contains virtually no native PPC code, which slows it down a lot more than it needs to. If you’re low on RAM, turn on virtual memory and install Mac OS 8.1, which will be pretty snappy with anything under 32 MB RAM. RAM is so cheap, however, that installing another 32 MB or so won’t cost more than about US$20 including shipping (in the US). If you have 64 MB RAM or more, and plenty of HD space (500 MB or so), just install 9.1 and call it good. Disable or delete anything you don’t need (like Speech Recognition) and you’ll have a system that’s as lean as 8.1 but much faster due to fully PPC-native code in the OS. I’ve used 9.1
