[Ti] Problems with videos

[Eduardo Luís]

RAM is no problem. I have 512 and until now there was no problem with
that. The problem is videoram I think.
I use firefox and when I open or close a tab, is very slow to respond.
And to switch between aplications with ALT+TAB, is slow too.
The mac performance is very slow.

It's a Powerbook Titanium 400Mhz, 8Mb video ram, 512 RAM.



2007/9/10, Bob Fowles <rbf at psu.edu>:
> If RAM availability is a problem, then Dashboard
> can be ignored and removed from the doc and never
> used.
>
> In general if the machine is running slow, use
> Activity Monitor or top under Terminal to see if
> any apps are using too much CPU.
>
> Going to 10.4 was a nightmare for a while because
> of the new searching mechanism Spotlight until
> Apple fixed it in a later update. The problem was
> that when you backed up to an external drive
> Spotlight would begin indexing the backup volume
> and the backup would take forever. A
> circumvention was to use the command mdutil under
> Terminal to prevent indexing on the backup
> volume. An alternate way was to drag the external
> HD icon to the Spotlight privacy tab but once the
> backup was done and the volume was detached, the
> volumes were removed from the privacy tab and you
> had to remember to do that again for the next
> backup. Apple fixed that in some later release of
> 10.4.
>
> My next problem in 10.4 happened after I
> installed 10.4.10. MS Word started using 50% of
> the CPU which created enough heat to turn on the
> fans. No other Office app has that problem. Even
> though I've followed all the forums, I don't have
> a solution to this problem. I used to have Word
> always started as an active app but I now use it
> and quit it as soon as possible. The underside
> has gotten so hot, it has partially melted the
> right rear rubber foot. If it weren't such a pain
> I would do a clean install of 10.4 and upgrade to
> 10.4.9 but not further. I keep hoping for a
> 10.4.11 that solves this problem.
>
> Bob
>
> 500Mhz G4 PB 768MB
>
>
> At 10:40 AM +0000 9/10/07, Francis wrote:
> >As far as I know, there's no way to upgrade video ram on the
> >powerbook. As for 10.4, I tried it for a few weeks last year and saw
> >no performance gains, quite the opposite. Dashboard eats up a lot of
> >RAM resources! So I downgraded back to 10.3.9 wich feels snapier.
> >
> >Francis
> >
> >On 9/10/07, Eduardo Luís <eluis.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  Ok, I will try it, Thanks.
> >>  I think there is no way to increase video ram.. is it??
> >>
> >>  If I install 10.4 will it be more slow then this 10.3?
> >>
> >>  Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>  2007/9/10, Francis <francisz at gmail.com>:
> >>  > Hi,
> >>  >
> >>  > I also own a 400Mhz Mercury with 384MB of RAM and, indeed, the video
> >>  > performance is weak. Anything Flash based, like YouTube videos, slows
> >>  > down the machine heavily. But if you switch the color depth from
> >>  > Millions to Thousands you will be able to get a better performance out
> >>  > of the video system. Try it, you'll be able to watch youtube videos
> >>  > this way.
> >>  >
> >>  > Francis
> >>  >
> >>  > On 9/10/07, Eduardo Luís <eluis.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  > > Hi,
> >>  > >
> >>  > > I have a Powerbook G4 Titanium mercury (
> >>  > > http://www.macrecycling.com/pbtitanium.php ).
> >>  > > I installed MacOS X 10.3 but, it seems very slow when switching
> >>  > > programs and closing windows.
> >>  > > I even can't see any Youtube videos.
> >>  > >
> >  > > > Is it because of the videoram? Thanks.
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