Old Dog Gets New Tricks

I think L9 is a wonderful gift for some older machines. I hadn't updated my older laptop for some time and I decided to see how it would run L9. I have a very large library so the update was a real slug timewise. However, L9 runs a whole lot faster than L8 once you get past the indexing.

My suggestion is that if you want to make more regular use of an older machine, you probably want to be a bit more selective and load a smaller library from scratch. That way you spend less maintenance time and just use the machine as a study resource more than a full exegetical battleship. For now, my older machine is a backup, but I think I will switch it down to resource use later if I keep it.

Win 10 and other software improvements like L9 have greatly increased the potential life of older computers.

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Sean

I haven't upgraded yet, but this is good to hear!

The time Logos takes for searching or indexing doesn't bother me; it's the general sluggishness of the UI that's annoying (e.g., library taking forever to open up, hanging on changing the layout, drop down boxes taking ages to populate, etc., etc.) Does that seem to have improved with L9?

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132038#Comment_1132038

I think the trick is to make sure Logos is fully loaded before executing anything. What I do on my older machine Is to wait until It no longer says it is preparing the library. Once that is done, it might not be fast, but it doesn’t act wonky. All apps, including Logos seem to fire up quickly and more stable on a second launch. My second launch with my HD oldster brings L9 up fully in about 10 seconds. I can run a full passage layout on a verse in roughly 15-20 seconds. That layout is much more tricked out than standard and my library is big. I think that is decent.

Peter Ryan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132043#Comment_1132043

Apologies that it doesn't add anything to the thread, I just wanted to say I love the phrase 'full exegetical battleship' [:D]

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132064#Comment_1132064

Apologies that it doesn't add anything to the thread, I just wanted to say I love the phrase 'full exegetical battleship'

Thank you[8-|]

mab

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132932#Comment_1132932

Took another backward leap on my Mac. It's from 2012. I first tried to just update it, but I got fed up because it's been wonky altogether as a machine for so long. It didn't have a problem going to L9 but for some reason kept being unable to load. So I pulled Logos off altogether and did some real housecleaning on the drive and removed a bunch of apps and ran Onyx. Then I reinstalled Logos to the curated level instead of a full amount.

That works fabulously with the latest version of Catalina. Boot time is much better even from the HD and Logos is up in about 10 seconds! Really good and reliable.

I was almost still going to do an SSD on it, but it won't go to Big Sur so L9 makes this box back in the fold.

Jerry Bush

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132064#Comment_1132064

Apologies that it doesn't add anything to the thread, I just wanted to say I love the phrase 'full exegetical battleship'

I agree! Might have to steal that one.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1132937#Comment_1132937

That works fabulously with the latest version of Catalina. Boot time is much better even from the HD and Logos is up in about 10 seconds! Really good and reliable.

That was a bit of work, but glad it paid off!