OS 9.0.4 to 9.1 - is it worth it?

[Mike F]

Mac is still new to me, so I'm a little reluctant to play around w the OS. Is it worth upgrading to 9.1? potential problems?

[hmccabe]

When I went up to 9.1 I didn't notice any changes whatsoever, and PT still works so I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[bassmac]

9.1 seems a bit faster to me.

My overloaded PT sessions redraw faster - however, I don’t know if that’s due to 9.1 or PT 5.1 since I upgraded both at the same time.

FWIW: The 9.1 upgrade is a piece of cake. All your custom extension sets will remain in place. It’s only an upgrade, not a new OS.

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bassmac

[ppine]

I had a strange problem with 9.1 where it did not recognize any secondary partitions that I had...(HDT 4.0 driver) These were on system drives, not audio drives..

I went scurrying back to 9.04 when I encountered this..

[ThomCat]

I use Logic and a Digi 001 on a DP 500 Mac. Under 9.04 I crashed hourly. Under 9.1 I only crash about once every 9-10 days, this over the last month or so. I haven't seen any downside to 9.1 except for the ponderous (71 MB) download.

[bassmac]

Use this and you can get 9.1 down to about 45 MB!

http://www.logicuser.net/extensions/browse.php3

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bassmac

[KamaSutra77]

9.1 seems pretty stable to me. between 9.1 and the 5.1 ptle upgrade Ive got a good system running. and to tell a secret, I surf the web and play rune ( with ptle session open in the background) no problem. Seems to have fixed the annoying wake up no digi hardwarerecognized problem too. I even use a real cheap scsi card I got at best buy for 45 bucks – the mac doest go into deep sleep becuase of that card, but it does everything else well.

[krazee]

9.1 works better to me then 9.0.4
i must say thta it has been a long since apple released an update that runs so stable...

i would say...go for it..

Apple G4 dual 500

[eboe]

(HDT 4.0 driver)

DON'T use other hd drives than apple...apple drives are even faster...if u want to read more about this....make a search at
http://www.xlr8tyourmac.com

If u like to use other hd drives?
there is a 100% mac comp. tool,
"hard disk speedtool" at
http://www.intechusa.com

[eboe]

ahh
and about mac os 9.1.
it's the most stable system from apple since, well it's the best ever. and i don't talk about beta sys. like os x