on 2/10/03 10:59 am, Julian O'Connor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can indeed run ATA100 drives on a 33 bus but there will be almost no speed > increase - the 8mb cache may help but not > much. > I put a similar 7200rpm ATA100 drive in my slot-loader 350 iMac and there was > almost no speed increase at all. > I timed booting up, starting various programs and various file searches - only > some of the searches where slightly faster and > that was probably because some info was still cached. > > I would spend the money on RAM. The 512MB in my 350 iMac turned it into an > excellent OSX machine - it has yet to crash. It > is perfectly responsive even compared to the newest offerings as long as you > keep to a few apps at once.
I think the main thing that slows osx down at least on the DV400 (768Mb ram) is that the drive is 85% full. With more space to spread files I think that should be the key to performance increase. I do get much idle time on x.2.6 and sometimes the mac doesn�t seem to know what its trying to do - especially if its been left on for a while. Hopefully this should fix it, although I'd imagine maxing the ram could do it. -- Mike Karthauser Managing Director - Brightstorm Ltd Email >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web >> http://www.brightstorm.co.uk Tel >> 0117 9426653 (office) 07939 252144 (mobile) Snailmail >> Unit 8, 14 King Square, Bristol BS2 8JJ -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
