I also have heard (but don't remember the rationale) that the video drivers suck. FPS in games seems to bear this out. Startup is slow, but why shut down? I've only shut down 3 or 4 times since I've started using it (I just close the lid and let it sleep).
Another possible part of the perceived slowness might be the lcd too. When I play back video on the lcd it looks choppy, as do some of the interface effects. When played back on an external crt, it all looks better.
On the other hand, I love the PB. It has earned its keep far better than any desktop I've had, and it doesn't ever crash. I truly thought that os9 was stable, but after using this for a few months, I realize that I had just grown accustomed to crashes in os9. OSX does feel like "taking a jog in a swimming pool", but it really is an improvement overall. Maybe future updates will help make it feel snappier on the PB.
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 01:01 PM, G-List wrote:
I also have the same PowerBook. I had some smilier problems when I first used my 12" PowerBook. I did a clean install of the OS, and that seemed to clean a lot of things up. You should also know the 12" PB lacks an L3 cache. Sometimes when I am doing multi-media stuff, it takes a performance penalty. But if your experiencing slow downs with Safari, Mail, Office Apps, etc, then I would recommend you do a nuke and pave, and start with a Clean OS.
Aaron
I have the same computer (12"PB with 640MB ram). I don't have any comparisons to a beige G3/300, but I can tell you, it takes 2-5 minutes to start up and is, in some cases, slower than my PowerMac G4/400 AGP.
I can't think of any reason why it is so slow sometimes.
Can anyone help us?
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