iBook Slow on 10.2.2 (Continued)

[Jay Boshara]

On 12/13/02 1:11 AM, "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Message-Id: <p05100300ba1f181e5912@[192.168.1.101]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:04:40 -0600
> From: Larry Blodgett <lblodgett at macosx.com>
> Subject: [P1] iBook Slow on 10.2.2 (Continued)
> 
> I have installed 10.2.2 from scratch on a seperate partition on my
> iBook 12" 500MHz 320 MegRam.  The install and the intenet update
> tooks hours and hours to perform.  The machine is crawling and top
> says the cpu is like 85-95 % busy.
> 
> The hardware CD check continues to show everything passed.
> 
> When I boot into 9.2.2 everything is fine, nice and fast.
> 
> I have reset pram, I erased the partition before I reinstalled.  The
> thing runs so slow in 10.2.2 it is hard to do any testing or
> anything.  I guess I will pull the memory and see if the thing will
> even boot.
> 
> This has me totally stumped, how could 9.2.2 run like a charm and
> 10.2.2 be so slow?
> 
> If you have any ideas let me know.
> -- 
> Larry Blodgett

Larry, you should expect OS 10.2 to run significantly slower than OS 9.  My
iBook 366 Special Edition with 320 MB of RAM runs about 25% slower in Jaguar
than it does in OS 9, but my new 800 MHz iMac 17" is only slightly better
(maybe 20% slower).  It is just the nature of OS X that it is slow,
especially the Finder.  If your system runs significantly slower than this
then maybe you have a problem, but a 25% decrease in speed is normal.  We
are all hoping that Apple will soon come out with a new generation of
processors (perhaps G5) that will make this very modern OS run better and
faster, but who knows when that will happen.