[iBook] iBook1.2GHz & the beach ball

[Russ Edwards]

I am running Tiger on my ibook G4 1Ghz.  It is has made my computer  
run faster.  It could be the fresh install though.


On 19-Aug-05, at 9:24 AM, Mike Wallinga wrote:

> Safari is pretty well-documented as a memory hog, and if you've had  
> it running for quite a while, it may be using a couple of hundred  
> megabytes of RAM by itself!  Here's a short, recent message board  
> thread about the topic:
>
> http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/ 
> 718009094731
>
> The next time you feel your iBook acting sluggish, I would quit  
> Safari (and maybe Mail, too) and then re-launch it, and see if that  
> makes a difference.
>
> I would only upgrade to Tiger if its new features (Spotlight,  
> Dashboard, Automator, new Mail interface, etc) are attractive to  
> you, not because it might use less RAM and/or be more responsive.   
> Honestly, I don't know if either of those claims are true or not.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike W.
>
> Roger Harris wrote:
>
>> Actually Tiger is worse at the problem you describe. This even   
>> happens on a dual 1.2GHz g4 to a lesser degree. Try Thunderbird as  
>> a  mail client. This is not a RAM issue, I think it has more to do  
>> with  graphics load and the way smoke and mirrors have been  
>> employed to  make the OS "seem" to be faster or more responsive at  
>> some task? I  try to disable a lot of eye candy; And though I use  
>> Apple Mail it is  a slug compared to Thunderbird. I never leave  
>> Mail running longer  than I need it. Is mail set to do updates  
>> every few minutes?
>> roger
>>
>
>
>> On Aug 18, 2005, at 11:18 AM, M.Milligan wrote:
>>
>>> I have an iBook, 2 USB, 1.2GHz, with 750MB ram. I notice when I   
>>> have Mail and Safari running, in OS X 10.3.8 the beach ball  
>>> seems  to become more obvious when ever the computer seems to be  
>>> thinking  or processing.
>>>
>>> Isn't 750MB RAM enough? Can I do something to not wait upwards of  
>>> 5  or 10 seconds everytime I want to page down a page on a url?
>>>
>>> Post privately if you wish. Thanks for the time.
>>>
>>> Is it time to move up to Tiger?
>>>
>>> M. Millligan
>>>
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Russ Edwards
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