---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G4 and OS 10.5 Date: Thursday, 03. May 2012 From: Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > You can change the timing of when Time Machine runs by editing a .plist: > > <http://www.trickyways.com/2010/04/how-to-change-time-machine-backup-interv > al-on-mac-os-x/> > > Back when I had a ram-starved iMac, Time Machine would cause a big hit, so > I set it to a 24 hour interval, and logged in remotely very late one night > and fired it off. After that it ran every 24 hours at that time, so it did > my backups when I wasn't there.
Good idea. > Not much help if you need every cycle you can get at 3 AM, too, but if > you're pounding it *that* hard, what the heck are you using such an > underpowered machine for? Good point. On the other hand, to be able to run some applications (that may or may not be processor intensive) you sometimes need at least 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard. That may be the reason for going for Leopard in the first place. And then it may be a good thing to turn off Spotlight/Dashboard/TimeMachine. To clarify: a slow machine is anything slower than a Dual-867 Power Mac G4. Althou I would also go with a Dual-800 Quicksilver and a good graphics card (i.e. GeForce 6200 or Radeon 9600). A good graphics card in one of those G4s will always be a boost in user experience… I also once used Leopard on a Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics and on a Cube, both with 450 MHz PowerPC 7400/7410 and an ATi Rage 128. I can tell you: no fun! But, and this is strange in a way: on my Power Mac G5 Dual-2.0 GHz (original, 2003) I also sometimes have to /wait/ for… what?… for Mac OS to get going. It could be faster. I'm used to not have to wait on my PC under Linux. But this wasn't always so, it's just that modern processors and graphics cards are sooo fast, that they will cover for poorly programmed applications. ---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G4 and OS 10.5 Date: Thursday, 03. May 2012 From: Wayne Stewart <waynejstew...@gmail.com> To: "G-Group" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> > You can just go to the Time Machine preference and switch it to off. > This just turns of the automatic backup. If you keep Time Machine in > your menu bar then you can click on Back Up Now whenever you want one > like when you're taking lunch. Well argued. I forgot about that. This may be the best solution on a slow machine. Thanks, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
