Re: Lombard speed-up/optimization

[Vern]

On a Lombard, I'd be tempted to go with Jaguar rather than Panther, 
unless you need the MS networking support that Panther offers.  Jaguar 
was pretty stable and reasonably fast on my Lombard, but Panther has 
some RAM issues. I had to remove the RAM from the top slot to get it to 
install, and I'll still get some occasional weird crashes where the 
screen goes all wonky (technical term). Repairing permissions is likely 
to cause the same thing to happen. There seems to be quite a range of 
performance with Panther on Lombard, with some people unable to get it 
to work at all, and others having no problem. Quite a few seem to share 
my experience.

Laurent is absolutely right, of course. You want more than 128 MB for 
OSX in any flavor.  Many people recommend buying from OWC, as they have 
good memory and support it well. (I didn't).

Cheers,
VJD
on 18/08/04 02:59, Dallas Idunno at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I have a Lombard 333mhz with 128mb ram, 4.3gb
I am currently running Mac OS 9.2.2 on it, and it runs very well. I 
have
tried a Mac OS 10.3.5 panther install, but it was fairly sluggish to 
use. I
am thinking of trying out Mac OS 10.0.4 or 10.1.5. Does anyone have 
any
speedup/optimization tips for OS X? thank you
If you found Panther sluggish, then you'll find 10.0.4 or 10.1.5 
incredibly
slow. One of the key is RAM. You only have 128MB. You should give 
another
try to Panther with at least 256MB or, even better, 512MB. Memory is 
pretty
cheap these days. You can get 2 x 256MB SODIMMs for probably less than
$60...

-Laurent.
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