[Ti] R E A L L Y SLOW performance...

[John]

I'm not too sure if this is time for a rebuild or not, running Panther 
(10.3.7) on a Titanium 550, 768MB RAM, 7 Gigs free. Not running too 
many plugins, but...

Safari is just slow. When opening up one page, it pegs the computer at 
100% - I'm not too sure if this means the preferences are corrupted, or 
if Safari itself is corrupted. The Finder crawls to a stop when opening 
up a few windows. Generally, everything is taking a long time and it is 
painful to work with. I'm "concerned" about running Onyx or MacJanitor 
as I'm not too sure which cleaning methods will change system 
behaviors.

I almost bought a 15" 1.5 Ghz with AppleCare and a Superdrive for $500 
off, but resisted as I'm using the PB G5 as sort of a restraint* from 
spending my money.


Thanks!

John Pariseau






*The theory goes something like this: Eventually there will be a PB G5, 
eventually. It will cost roughly the same price as the current 
models+inflation. If I buy a PB G4 NOW, Apple will release the G5 
tomorrow. While this will benefit the rest of Apple users, it will 
cause me no end to suffering. I won't be able to sell my brand new PB, 
and will think that the G5 will perform above and beyond that of the PB 
G4. However, if performing above and beyond the G4 is not in 
performance but in heat...  And please spare me talks of heat transfer 
- I'm taking a heat transfer class right now, and have NO desire to 
model the hypothetical heat transfer rates needed for a hypothetical PB 
G5 CPU. <<shudder>>