I too would really like to know about this. I recently acquired a G4
800mhz iBook and immediately upgraded it to a gig of RAM and I swear
that it is slower at most tasks than my 400mhz Pismo, also with a gig
of RAM. I really expected a big difference in speed and I just haven't
seen it. Any ideas??
Nancy
On Feb 15, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
About one year ago I had a Wallstreet II / PDQ 266 with 128MB RAM
running
Panther (I believe 10.3.5. and Jaguar 10.2.6 before that). I know this
was too little, but unless I used very memory intensive apps it was OK.
Now have encountered an iBook G4 1Ghz with 128MB running Panther 10.3.6
that is slower than my old WS machine!
I looked at the processor with Top and it was running at about 50%.
Some
VM activity was going on, but it didn't seem excessive nor did the
drive
trash. Also I only found 3 swap files, which I'd expect with this
little RAM.
In my old WS changing to another app could take about 5 seconds at
times,
longer if I ran more than say 5 apps. To start an app took maybe 10
dock
bounces. On this book starting an app takes very long time, like 15
bounces. Changing app takes way more than 15 seconds, between say, Word
and System Preferences, those two being the only ones loaded.
While any machine with 128MB is running sub-optimally, I was impressed
on
the WS 266 when Panther support in XPostFacto arrived and how much
snappier my machine felt even with as little as 128MB ( I later
upgraded
to 384MB).
It seems that I'm not looking at processor overload, but something more
complex. Anyone have any suggestions what to look for including
hardware
problems in this model?
I'm going to try to redo prebinding and getting rid of all suspect
prefs,
before I install more RAM. Any other suggestions?
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