While for most tasks and applications an increase in speed was not immediately noticeable, TenFourFox, a fork of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC, launched significantly faster and page loads were also accelerated. But do not get me wrong here, faster does not mean it suddenly was blazingly fast, as we would expect from a modern computer. The biggest remaining bottlenecks – slow processor, bus and ram speeds – were unchanged. Just to give you an idea: Loading and rendering this page took about 10–15 seconds over fast broadband.
Thanks to the extra memory we were not taking minutes anymore.
