[And here's their speed benchmarks comparing 7.6.1 to 8.1, 8.6 and 9.1.

http://main.system7today.com/articles/til/benchmarks.html

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you know - looking at those results i would still go with 8.5.

of course system folder is going to be bigger - what os upgrade makes it smaller?

same with memory - and not a huge jump anyway.

boot and restart times - well fast is good, but slow i can live with too, its not as though its a constant part of using a computer for a session.

the other two results are not dis-similar in my eyes.