Nothing more needs to be said here. Finder Browsing the hard drive with the Finder is very fast. Classic We haven't had the time to fully explore Classic on Epsilon, but for basic tasks it seems to perform as well as OS 9 did by itself on the machine. Classic takes about 90 seconds to start, and then works transparently until you tell it to stop. Classic applications launch in about the same time as they do in OS 9.
Classic takes about a second to shut down.
An average bounce rating for applications on Epsilon would be 4 - 7 bounces. It's not uncommon for the sound to trail the video or vice versa in movies that played flawlessly in OS 9. When a QuickTime 5 movie is playing, minimized, in the Dock, it takes much longer to launch any other applications, and the Dock is much less responsive. Maximizing a movie while it is playing is mostly fluid, however. The Pismo PowerBook outperformed the Lombard PowerBook in several tasks, but this is not unexpected.