[dan123_123]

Hey,

A few days ago I installed Tiger on my g4 iBook, which is now a great deal slower. It has 512MB extra RAM installed as well as the normal 256; in order to make it run faster should I just buy more memory? Or is it something to do with the processor?
I really have no idea about any of these things, and I don't know anybody who knows anything about macs either, so I'm completely in the dark!

Any help and recommendations would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Allie

[nJm]

When I installed Tiger on my iBook G4 it made it run faster, and I only have a total of 512mb ram. Tiger always runs slowly shortly after installing it as Spotlight has to index the hard disk, but after that it should be nice and snappy, with the exception of Dashboard (at least that's how I found it on mine)

[Gamoe]

I have a G3 IBook which actually runs pretty well and doesn't seem slower or bogged down at all to me, so I find that odd. Maybe, as nJm suggests, there are some other processes running on your iBook which is slowing it down temporarily

More memory is always better and will improve your iBook's performance with more applications running at once, but as I said, your iBook shouldn't really be slower with your setup.

Run Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder, inside the Applications folder) and select "Activity Monitor" under the "Window" menu if it isn't up already to see what percentage of memory and CPU each application or process is using up. Alternatively, you can just type "top" in the Terminal (in the same folder") and that'll give you a text readout of the same.

By the way, if you don't care for Dashboard on Tiger, you can reclaim some memory and computing cycles by disabling it through TinkerTool.