Personally, I use 7.6 on my 9500/G4@700. The speed of the system and the user experience that goes with it are just incredible and I don't think I will go back to 9 on that machine. The Radeon 7000 is well handled and even Open GL works with a bit of hack. I can play Quake 3 at full speed.
Sometimes, I feel that my 2009 intel iMac is slow compare to the 9500.
There are tons of cool apps that run on 7.6. I even found a really cool launcher called The Tilery.
The only thing that I miss on 7.6 is the 3ivx plugin to be able to watch full length movies. For the rest, I use Quicktime 5 with Mpeg1 encoded videos. The result is not bad at all in term of quality/compression!
Sometimes, I feel that my 2009 intel iMac is slow compare to the 9500.
There are tons of cool apps that run on 7.6. I even found a really cool launcher called The Tilery.
The only thing that I miss on 7.6 is the 3ivx plugin to be able to watch full length movies. For the rest, I use Quicktime 5 with Mpeg1 encoded videos. The result is not bad at all in term of quality/compression!