[P1] Friend has a "slow" iBook...

[William L Carr]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 09:34  AM, Joe wrote:

> Her complaint:
>
> " so i have a pc desktop and an ibook. my ibook is 800 mghz. havnt 
> upgraded the ram past 256 yet. got it just in early december. i cant 
> help but to say...this thing isnt very fast. when i click on the hard 
> drive it takes a couple seconds to even open...etc etc. im thinking of 
> upgrading to a g4 powerbook. but damn this thing should be running 
> faster..any suggestions on how to speed it up through OS settings?

> I told her to get more RAM asap and turn off Genie Effect....my 600mhz 
>  iBook runs fine with 640 mb of RAM. But I've also played with a 14 in 
> iBook and it didn't seep to lag as badly as she described...Any more 
> tips you could give her?
>
> TIA from both of us!
>


Run Fix Permissions, add more RAM.   That should about do it.

Jkirk


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