Re: Power Computing Dead or Alive?

[James Grubic]

One of the reasons for slow Internet speed (that is, slow web surfing) 
is because the hard disk speed presents a bottleneck for the caching of 
web pages, which is done for every page you visit.

You can speed up web surfing on Power Computing machines and older Macs by:

1. Allocating more RAM to the application, at least 16mb

2. Setting the disk cache to ZERO mb.

This translates to pages not being cached and therefore less time is 
spent copying the pages/graphics/content to your slow hard disk.

If you are feeling really adventurous, you can set up a RAM disk and set 
your browser to store the cached pages there.

Also, having a faster hard disk and CPU helps  :)



James





We still use our Power Tower Pro 250 as our main computer.  One of
these days
we'll get time and energy to upgrade the processor, but for right
now, it's
got lots of RAM and handles my Illustrator and Photoshop work very
well.  Slow
on the internet, though.  We won't get rid of it even if we buy a
new
system
one day.  I'm grateful that drives and stuff are no longer
stratospheric in
price.

Cheers, Monica


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