I bought my 17" 1.5 GHz PowerBook last summer, and then installed 2 GB of RAM a few months ago. While I am not running anything high-powered right now, I have not noticed any improvement in going from the 512 RAM to the 2 GB RAM. Not only that, but things are beginning to slow down, as if my hard drive was nearly full. (I have 53 GB left of an 80 GB drive.)
I may have asked this question last summer. I am wondering what routine maintenance can/should be done on a PowerBook to keep it in tiptop running condition.
Thanks, Claire
In my experience, the performance tends to degrade over time, but there is an easy solution.
I periodically run the fine and free utility OnyX and have it done the maintenance tasks (like clearing cache files, virtual memory files and all that). My children's B&W G3, which I had neglected to do that on for months, all of a sudden seemed like a completely new machine after doing it. Of course, the benefits will not be as evident if you do it regularly, but then again neither will be the degradation :-)
As a side bonus, OnyX also lets one control other nice details, like having both scroll buttons in both ends of scroll bars, or adding a quit command to the finder, or safari's debug menu, etc.
Incidentally, these routine maintenance procedures are usually preset by the system to occur daily, weekly or monthly at some late night hour (2am, or something), but most people don't keep their macs on overnight, so they are not run.
Luis Sequeira
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