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12' performance issues. (maybe)
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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so for a month or so the girlfriend has been complaining that her powerbook is super slow. i think to myself "nah, shes just used to mine (15' ti, 1gzh, and a gig o'ram ) or she has been spoiled by the computer lab towers at school ( dual g5's all 20 of em) and so i brush her off. so today i sit down and try and do some work on her powerbook, and well, she was right it seems super slow.
if i have more than 2 apps open it generates beachballs everytime i switch. and chugs so had when i have itunes open and try to do some photoshop work (small, 25 mb files ) it wont even geneate a beach ball. then it takes 20 seconds to close the app, or bring up the force quit dialog box.
i ran tech tool x and everything came up fine. i think she may just need more ram, but am looking for a second opinion.
heres her set up;
12' alpb
10.3.4
15 external crt
1ghz
256 built in (<----- i think this is the problem)
and 60 gig hd.
it's the ram, huh?
thanks in advance
-jersey
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Join Date: May 2004
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256MB is not a lot.. but I'm sure it can handles 2 apps. I used my 12" with 256MB of RAM for a week before I ordered 1 more GB, and it wasn't that slow like you say. I would do a complete reinstall instead of trying to figuring out what's wrong (you can if it still happen after the reinstall  )
(Last edited by tvbi; Jul 7, 2004 at 05:40 PM.
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Originally posted by jersey:
i think she may just need more ram, but am looking for a second opinion.
Yes, buy a 512 or 1GB stick for her PowerBook, that is definitely an issue. However, you may want to run a program from the Terminal called "top". "top" will give you an output with a summary of resource usage at the top and then a print out of your processes like so...
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
623 top 17.2% 0:05.39 1 16 26 368K 388K 2.20M 27.1M
596 bash 0.0% 0:00.04 1 12 19 208K 832K 824K 18.2M
"top" itself may be the top running process and that's fine, but check below it to see what other procs are doing on your system. Your girlfriend may have something running at startup your not aware of that's hogging CPU or RAM.
More RAM is a must though, and you're on the right track with needing more.
(Last edited by mcsharick; Jul 7, 2004 at 07:30 PM.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I'm in no way an OS X expert, but my 12" PB seems to show the dreaded beachball more after a few weeks of use. I repair my permissions (it seems this always needs doing) and restart. Problems solved! Also, you could check out MacJanitor
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Originally posted by sideus:
That is a big PowerBook.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Try typing the following in Terminal,
sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
sudo periodic monthly
These are supposed to be run automatically in the middle of the night if your Powerbook is on (not sleep). Of if you don't feel comfortable in Terminal, download this, it does the same thing. This might help speed things up if repairing permissions and zapping your pram didn't workout.
Oh yeah, and get more RAM for godsakes.
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