[G4] G4 speed increase

Tony Breen anthobreen at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 18:01:52 PST 2008


I am looking at working on some photos, the files would be between 22 and 30
megs each. Currently it is painfully slow and takes 20 seconds or so just to
open a file. I do not mind doing a processor upgrade but would that give me
a reasonable speed increase?

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Shannon Nugent <shannon at nuge.com> wrote:

> Is the machine running too slow for ya?
> What kind of work do you do on it?
>
> Those macs are not very fast.  I'd say get a faster processor card.
>
> That or just maybe sell that one on Ebay and get a newer faster one.
>
> I found this website that sells used macs.  I've never used them
> before so I'm not sure how reputable they are.
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Tony Breen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to MAC and have recently purchased a Gigabit dual 500mhz
> > CPU with 2GB RAM, an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI card and running OS
> > 10.4.11. How do I make this machine go faster? I do not want to
> > spend the money on a G5 but do I have any other alternative?
> >
> > Tony
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