Originally posted by built2crawl:
Is there anything I can do to speed things up?
Thanks in Advance.
Actually that was my first Macs too. Then I upgraded to the Ti800 and now the new G4/1.25GHz. I was unimpress w/ the speed too. I ran it mostly under OS9 so everything was pretty snappy. I did try to run it under OS X (10.2.x).
You could do a few things, for example like turn off everything that you aren't using. There is a program called "ShadowsKiller" or something like that from Unsanity (
www.unsanity.com) that kills the shadows from Windows. That should speed things up. Turn off other animation features in OS X would help.
RAM isn't your problem, as a matter of fact you probably don't even know 1GB of ram. Remember, RAM only makes your computer faster if you are using it. Go under Application/Utilities/Activity Monitor to see how much ram you are using.
You might also want to invest in a faster, that will significantly speed things up.
Then again, you might you wanna use that money towards a faster PowerBook.
Let us know if you have any other questions. Free feel to email me as well.
Goodluck and Welcome to MacNN.