It is not unusual for new Apple hardware to have a bad installment of the OS and applications. I always run Norton and DW utilities on new hardware. Sometimes I have had clients with so much trouble that I have wiped the drive and reinstalled everything. Roger Harris Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote: > almost-new (exactly two months old) 14.1" iBook 900 with some > surprising results. My iBook had seemed to be slowing down of late, > particularly with my Eudora Pro v.6 (paid version) and iCab 2.9.5 with > slower uploads and downloads. > > First, Disk Warrior found 29 percent of my directories out of place or > needing repair or whatever it's called that's considered "bad". On my old