It may have been doing the first index for Spotlight, which lags the system a bit. Did you notice if the magnifying glass was pulsing? I've seen that on a couple new installs. Once it finishes, the machine is much better. On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Ross Winn wrote: > I have a 12" Powerbook with 640mb of RAM and a Superdrive. When I > installed 10.4 Tiger the machine became a complete dog. So poor was > the performance that I went back to 10.3.9. > > Does anyone else have experience with this machine and Tiger, and does > 10.4.3 make it any better? > > -- > Ross Winn > ross.winn at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > -- Justin R. Miller incanus at codesorcery.net