[G4] Slow Preformance

[Dave]

What computer are you running?


Jim Reamer wrote:

> Dave,
>     I bought a Western Digital 120 gig external drive about a year ago
> specifically to use as an iMovie scratch disc and I've been very
> pleased. I also use a G4, 933, 1 gig mem. Just updated to 10.3.3 and
> iMovie 4.
>
> Jim
>
> On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:15 PM, David Whipple wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Just want to thank you for G4 lists, I've been looking for help for a
> > long time.
> > My G4 933 w/ max ram of 1.25 gigs is slowing down a lot. I running OS
> > 10.2.8
> > and I do a lot of DV editing in iMovie 3.0.3 and that is very slow. I
> > am down to
> > about 7 gigs of disk space(out of 60). I really don't want to take off
> > my working file at this
> > time. I was thinking of getting a 200 gig drive. Would that take care
> > of the problem
> > or is iMovie 3.0.3 just not optimized for the G4 or is OS 10.2.8 not
> > optimized
> > for the G4? Are they more geared towards the G5s? Anyway I would like
> > to know
> > way would be the best type of drive to get for the 933.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Dave  W.
> >
> >
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