[G4] Gigabit Ethernet & memory

Daniel Tellier cdt at globaldsl.net
Mon Sep 3 05:51:45 PDT 2007


No, I haven't.  I'll look into it, though, and consider the 
possibilities before I go back to Panther.

Dan


On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 12:37  AM, Techpriest wrote:

> 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.
>
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