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fastest os x?
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Hello, I am currently running 10.4.8 on my G4 Powerbook 867mhz, 1.12GB Ram, 100GD HD, and it is running painfully slow, is there another OS X Version that would speed up my old friend? Or is there something else I can do to speed it up?
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There is no other version that will be much faster - how much free space on your primary hd? If you are close to full, cleaning at least 20% off will help a little. Did it used to be faster, or are you just fed up with the speed it's always been?
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What are you doing that's painfully slow?
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well its always been slow.
I usually have about 8 GB free space,
I usually have Mail Safari Adium and Skype always open,
which for me doesnt seem like a lot of applications running and even then I get the beachball while just surfing the web, and having to wait for the beachball to go away while surfing is just annoying...
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That's your problem I think, you need to have more than 8 GB free. Something to do with virtual memory I think. Your powerbook should be able to run Tiger just fine, and you've definitely got enough RAM.
Open the Activity Monitor and see what programs are using. I think some versions of Skype have had memory leaks and always take up the cpu. The same with Safari, it has a memory leak. Try quitting it more often or search this forum for tips on making Safari run faster.
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skype and adium take up only 30MB of Memory each, but Safari bloated up 270MB, so I closed it and reopened. Would you suggest using Camino or Firefox?
I also freed up some disk space and have 12GB now.
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I played around a little bit, and it seems your right, when you quit Safari it speeds up everything, so Ill just start quitting Safari after using it from now on...Thanks for the tip
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain 
That's your problem I think, you need to have more than 8 GB free. Something to do with virtual memory I think. Your powerbook should be able to run Tiger just fine, and you've definitely got enough RAM.
I don't see why he would need to have more then 8 GB of free hard drive space for his system to run at optimal levels. I've run well below that (under 1 GB) on my iBook without noticing a performance hit.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Yeah, Safari has some nasty memory leaks that you won't find in Ff or Camino. If I were you, I'd be sure to either restart Safari every so often, or just switch to Camino.
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