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

[Anders Bogdan]

First of all, the iBook laptop and therefore has slower disk, launching 
is mainly a function of how fast the computer can read the disk. In 
general a desktop will be faster at this... but a couple seconds to 
open the finder? That's wacked.
Are you using OS9?? If so, sorry I can't help, I know zilch about os9, 
but if you are using OSX you might want to check in 
SystemPreferences-.EnergySaver under the Options tab (for how you are 
using the iBook, ie power adaptor or battery) and see if Processor 
Performance is set to highest or reduced. Also, check if you have the 
drive sleeping after a short amount of time, so in effect you are 
always waking it up to access it.

anyway, good luck
anders

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 08:34  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? im 
> kind of dissapointed in spending 1600 dollars and im somewhat new with 
> owning a mac. anyone else have this delay in running apps as simple as 
> the hard drive viewer? maybe it is just mine. i was told a g3 800 mghz 
> runs roughly as fast as a pentium 1.6 - 1.8. but my pc is in that 
> range and totally kills this ibook in speed. everything opens 
> instantly.."
>
> 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!