Comment by jwells89

I only ever got to play with BeOS 5 PE in Be's twilight years, but it was incredibly zippy on the 800Mhz PIII Dimension 4100 tower that was the family computer at that point in time. It handily beat Windows 98SE (what the Dimension shipped with) and was a solid step up from even Windows 2000 (which itself was a step up from 98SE). The vaguely Mac-like yet unique feel of its UI was also fascinating (and unsurprisingly worked well as a Kaleidoscope scheme on classic Mac OS).

Never was able to run it full time though.