[iBook] Slow IBook

[Angus Wallace]

Heya,

You *need* at least 256mb RAM to run OSX, but will notice a significant
improvement if you get 512.

Being a unix-based OS, there is essentially no such thing as 'too much' RAM,
because the OS is very good at pre-caching in the RAM. This will help reduce
hard-disk usage, and will greatly improve performance. It's probably the most
effective (and cheap ;-) way to upgrade your system!

HTH,
-Angus


Quoting William Wiseman <elox at hot.rr.com>:

> > 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,
> 
> Add some RAM. I have the same iBook with 640MB installed an have none 
> of these issues. It came with 256MB which was not as bad as you 
> describe BUT it was slower than my G4/400 desktop that had 512MB. After 
> then RAM was added to the iBook it was much faster than the desktop.
> 
> JeffW.
> 
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