[iBook] iBook1.2GHz & the beach ball

[Matt]

I was running Panther on my 600Mhz iBook. After I did
a clean install of Tiger I also noticed a performance
in speed. It definatly runs better and faster than
Panther.

Matt

--- Russ Edwards <edwards.russ at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 
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