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turbo-111 · Jul 31, 2006, 11:19 PM

wuts up guys (gender frendly) my sis has a mac (well i guess u could call it mine seeing how i put a new hard drive ram and an operating system on it) however i'm new to macs. lol as in i havent used one since grade school and now i'm 19 so its changed alot. what i need to know is how to find what the processer speed is. the laptop is a first gen ibook orange i think i read somewhere it was like 333mhz or somthn but like i said duh i'm stupied on macs. also i'm runin 10.1.5 on it and the internet explore is like really slow, like it takes it a while to realize the bleep its doin. takes pages long to load and i'm runing Roadrunner so its not the modem i've already tested my speed to check. also it dosent pick up my mp3 player is that just because it doesent have teh drivers ? if so how can i get them ?

chadseld · Aug 1, 2006, 09:42 AM

There is an application called "System Profiler" in /Applications/Utilities/ that will tell you about your hardware. I think your iBook is a G3 at 300MHz. And yes, it will be slow with 10.1.x. You will see an improvement with 10.4.x, but you must first upgrade the RAM to the maximum (160MB?) or I wouldn't even bother. That iBook works best with Mac OS 9, but what's the fun in that?

tooki · Aug 1, 2006, 10:56 AM

288MB is the max, actually, but that's still far too little to run OS X acceptably, never mind well. Combined with the slow CPU, and it's a recipe for frustration.

That said, IE for Mac is also a really slow browser. Using something else would be a lot faster.

tooki

monkeybrain · Aug 1, 2006, 11:31 AM

I think there is still a version of Camino that runs on 10.1. That should be faster than IE.

About running 10.4, you need a DVD drive to install it - does it have one? 10.3 should be ok to install. Basically every release of OS X has got faster.

nickw311 · Aug 1, 2006, 12:27 PM

take a look at www.everymac.com

It is a great resource site for information regarding every mac....

lookmark · Aug 1, 2006, 01:15 PM

Don't the orange iBooks still go for about $150 on eBay?

Consider selling it, and picking up a refurb MacBook for $950 (full warranty). Might be worth it.

$800 will get you a much, much, much faster, better computer than the $250+ you'll end up paying for RAM, HD, and OS upgrades.

turbo-111 · Aug 1, 2006, 01:54 PM

i already have instaled a 40gig hd and 128 ram and have a 10gig external hd to save mp3 and pics. i only paid like 30 bucks all together for the hd and ram ( gotta love ebay). so if get panther the mac shuld run slightly faster correct ??

lookmark · Aug 1, 2006, 04:50 PM

Gotta love Ebay.

Using OS X with 128MB RAM isn't going to be a whole lot of fun, but sure, if you can get Panther or Tiger on the cheap, definitely go for it. It will be faster and be able to run modern browsers like Camino.

TheoCryst · Aug 1, 2006, 05:11 PM

On something that old, I'd still vote for OS 9 to get the best performance, but if you absolutely need/want OS X, go ahead and get Panther. Tiger is too much of a RAM hog, even after killing Dashboard. Oh, and max out your RAM, assuming it isn't already maxxed.

EDIT: According to everymac.com, there is no 333 iBook. The original (blue or orange) was 300, and the SE (graphite) was 366. The 300 model came with 32 MB of built-in memory, the 366 had 64, and you can add up to 256 MB to either. Definitely do that if you are planning on running any version of OS X.

Cucucachoo · Aug 1, 2006, 05:13 PM

Hey Turbo-111, If you IM me your mailing address ill send you an CPU-Drop in Upgrade to Panther for the low low price of NaDa. I have a few laying around the shop and really dont need them. Was going to use them for drink costers and frisbys but if you want one ill be more than happy to hook ya up.

Let me know!