[iBook] Slow IBook

[William Wiseman]

> I have a 12" ibook 800/128/OS 10.3.5 with a hard wired internet 
> connection through a router.  Loading internet pages or even Mail is 
> extremely slow, I can wait for up to 30 seconds for the spinning wheel 
> to start.  EBay is almost non workable as it can take up to a minute 
> for images to load.  My WINTEL box sitting right beside it with a 
> 1.5/512 responds astoundingly fast in comparison.  My old CRT iMac 
> with a 400 mhz processor is three times as fast as the ibook.   Before 
> I start troubleshooting this issue maybe someone has some good advice. 
>  My first thought is that the 128 RAM needs to be maxed out, but 
> wonder if the real issue is the video memory which I don't think I can 
> change.   I am porting the video out to a Digital 21" monitor but 
> don't know if that could drag down the system.  I know in the WINTEL 
> world memory is key but not sure about iBooks.  Any Advice??

Doug,

Add some RAM. I have the same iBook with 640MB installed an have none 
of these issues. It came with 256MB which was not as bad as you 
describe BUT it was slower than my G4/400 desktop that had 512MB. After 
then RAM was added to the iBook it was much faster than the desktop.

JeffW.