[iBook] iBook1.2GHz & the beach ball

[Roger Harris]

Actually Tiger is worse at the problem you describe. This even  
happens on a dual 1.2GHz g4 to a lesser degree. Try Thunderbird as a  
mail client. This is not a RAM issue, I think it has more to do with  
graphics load and the way smoke and mirrors have been employed to  
make the OS "seem" to be faster or more responsive at some task? I  
try to disable a lot of eye candy; And though I use Apple Mail it is  
a slug compared to Thunderbird. I never leave Mail running longer  
than I need it. Is mail set to do updates every few minutes?

roger


On Aug 18, 2005, at 11:18 AM, M.Milligan wrote:

> I have an iBook, 2 USB, 1.2GHz, with 750MB ram. I notice when I  
> have Mail and Safari running, in OS X 10.3.8 the beach ball seems  
> to become more obvious when ever the computer seems to be thinking  
> or processing.
>
> Isn't 750MB RAM enough? Can I do something to not wait upwards of 5  
> or 10 seconds everytime I want to page down a page on a url?
>
> Post privately if you wish. Thanks for the time.
>
> Is it time to move up to Tiger?
>
> M. Millligan