I've got one of the original 12" Powerbooks, 867 Mhz, with 640 Mb RAM.
Over the last number of months I've been feeling that performance has
become very sluggish, and I'm wondering what I can do to improve
things. I'm seeing the spinning beachball on a lot of occasions, and
there seem to be long delays in doing most things. Most I use it for
everyday stuff, though I also do some photo work with Photoshop CS and
RAW files out of a Nikon D70. However, I expect it to be a bit slow on
thos occasions. It's the 5-second delay in switching between two tabs
in Safari that I'm more concerned about...
I ran a simple test this morning. I cleared one or two obvious things
such as the safari cache, closed down Safari and Mail, and switched it
off. Then I rebooted and left it alone for a good 10 minutes so that
any background programs that were due to start had done so. Then I
started Safari, from an icon in the Dock. This resulted in just over 40
bounces before an empty Safari window opened. I'm sure it used to be
faster than that.....
What might be causing this performance slow down? And what can I do to
improve things?
For inf: it's running OX X 10.3.9, and Info on the hard drive says that
its capacity is 37.25GB of which 17.68 is available and 19.57 is used.
All the photo images are stored on a pair of LaCie external Firewire
drives.
Tom Burke
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