[G4] Gigabit Ethernet & memory

[Techpriest]

Have you "tuned" OSX 4 to run better on the G3s?  I found turning off  
many of the bells and whistles helped.

Here is a good article with some tips to get all versions of OSX to  
run better on slower machines.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020221092653868

On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Daniel Tellier wrote:
>
> I also have two G3 iBooks, a 700 Mhz, with an 80Gb HD, and an 800  
> Mhz, with a 30 Gb HD, both with 640Mb RAM.  I upgraded the 700Mhz  
> to OSX 10.4 Tiger and its performance slowed considerably.  If I  
> remember correctly, Tiger is a significantly larger system than  
> Jaguar or Panther and seems to slow the older, slower systems  
> down.  (More memory might alleviate this problem, but that is not  
> an option with these iBooks - they are both maxed on RAM).  I'm  
> planning to move it back to Panther because of this.   That is, of  
> course, unless some to the guys with more experience than me tell  
> me I'm wrong and what I did to slow down my iBook besides upgrading  
> to Tiger.