On Nov 9, 2011, at 4:55 PM, MACMAN wrote: > Jack what does emac 700Mhz feels like with 1gb of ram running 10.4. > > My emac 700 with 256mb of ram runs much slower. > > I use mac os x 10.4.11 tiger. > > This emac struggles with several editing apps like imovie 06 and > garageband 06.
You will see a dramatic increase in performance moving up to 512 megs, about half again as much moving to 1 gig. Your system is severely constrained by your lack of RAM, so you're swapping to disk incessantly, which is slow, especially if that's an older slower drive that's mostly full. ONce you've gotten rid of the RAM bottleneck, then your CPU will start to be the bottleneck. RAM is cheap. There's little reason to not upgrade your emac to the max it can hold. It costs $42 here: <http://www.datamemorysystems.com/_apple_info/Apple_G4_eMac_700MHz_Memory_1289.asp> No doubt the original 40gb HDD is also a 4200 or 5400 rpm drive. Replacing that with a larger, faster 7200 rpm, drive will also give you a noticeable speed increase, on top of what you get from adding RAM. That's another $45: <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148797> So for less than a hundred bucks, you can max out that eMac, and make so it's usable for garage band and imovie. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
