[iBook] Slow IBook

[Doug Payne]

I have a 12" ibook 800/128/OS 10.3.5 with a hard wired internet 
connection through a router.  Loading internet pages or even Mail is 
extremely slow, I can wait for up to 30 seconds for the spinning wheel 
to start.  EBay is almost non workable as it can take up to a minute 
for images to load.  My WINTEL box sitting right beside it with a 
1.5/512 responds astoundingly fast in comparison.  My old CRT iMac with 
a 400 mhz processor is three times as fast as the ibook.   Before I 
start troubleshooting this issue maybe someone has some good advice.  
My first thought is that the 128 RAM needs to be maxed out, but wonder 
if the real issue is the video memory which I don't think I can change. 
   I am porting the video out to a Digital 21" monitor but don't know if 
that could drag down the system.  I know in the WINTEL world memory is 
key but not sure about iBooks.  Any Advice??

Doug