[G4] Slow Preformance

[Jim Reamer]

Dave,
    I bought a Western Digital 120 gig external drive about a year ago 
specifically to use as an iMovie scratch disc and I've been very 
pleased. I also use a G4, 933, 1 gig mem. Just updated to 10.3.3 and 
iMovie 4.

Jim


On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:15 PM, David Whipple wrote:

> Hi,
> Just want to thank you for G4 lists, I've been looking for help for a 
> long time.
> My G4 933 w/ max ram of 1.25 gigs is slowing down a lot. I running OS 
> 10.2.8
> and I do a lot of DV editing in iMovie 3.0.3 and that is very slow. I 
> am down to
> about 7 gigs of disk space(out of 60). I really don't want to take off 
> my working file at this
> time. I was thinking of getting a 200 gig drive. Would that take care 
> of the problem
> or is iMovie 3.0.3 just not optimized for the G4 or is OS 10.2.8 not 
> optimized
> for the G4? Are they more geared towards the G5s? Anyway I would like 
> to know
> way would be the best type of drive to get for the 933.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dave  W.
>
>
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