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Jul 29, 2012 6:00 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,Aere you watching streaming video from the internet or a DVD in your Powerbook or some other source of video?
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Jul 30, 2012 12:43 PM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,Hi BGreg whenver I try to play a video in general either dvd or streaming it is very choppy.
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Jul 30, 2012 1:52 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,If you said internet steaming, that's not surprising, as it's diffcult for the G4's to keep up with the more complex video streams being used today. However, a DVD should be fine. Can you answer a few questions ....
How much memory (RAM) do you have?
How much free disk space on how large a drive do you have?
What level OS X are you running?
What CPU speed is your PowerBook?
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Aug 2, 2012 3:13 PM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,hello sorry about the delay here is all the stuff you need
Model Name: PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier: PowerBook5,4
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.1)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.6f0
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Aug 2, 2012 5:22 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,Thanks for posting the information. What operating system are you running? How much free disk space do you have?
Is this stuttering something that recently started or is the PowerBook new to you and this is just the way it's performing?
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Aug 4, 2012 10:14 AM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,This computer was gave to me by a friend and its an old computer. The computer acted this way when i fist got it.
The software is Mac OS X version 10.5.8
Also how do you find the Disk Space
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Aug 4, 2012 10:25 AM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,Click the apple on the left of the menu bar, click about this mac, more info, then serial ATA, and under the hard drive it should tell you the capacity and the available space. Or choose the hard drive on your desktop and do command and I (letter I (eye)).
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Aug 5, 2012 2:50 PM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,When i go to serial ATA it says
"This system does not contain any Serial-ATA devices. If you have any Serial-ATA devices installed, please check that they are connected and powered on"
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Aug 5, 2012 3:08 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,My apology ... instead of serial ATA you should go to ATA at the top of the list.
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Aug 5, 2012 3:34 PM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,this is what was in there there was no hard drive option just a bunch of number
Capacity: 804.3 MB
Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-825
Revision: DAM5
Serial Number:
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk1
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: Yes
Power Off: No
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
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Aug 5, 2012 5:19 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,When I click on ATA on my PowerBook, it shows two entries ... one for the DVD drive, which is what you posted above, and a second for the hard drive. If yours doesn't have a second entry, then go to your desktop, click once on the hard drive to choose it, than push command and the I (eye) keys. That will tell you how much available space there is, too.
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Aug 5, 2012 6:56 PM in response to BGregby Cooperbome,This is what u said before
Capacity: 111.79 GB
Model: ST9120822A
Revision: 3.ALE
Serial Number: 5LZ8H09P
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: No
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
MAC HD:
Capacity: 111.67 GB
Available: 90.41 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /
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Aug 5, 2012 7:11 PM in response to Cooperbomeby BGreg,Thanks. Let's recap ... You have a 1.5Ghz PowerBook with 1.5GB of memory, and over 90GB of available space on the hard drive. The hard drive is a Seagate 5400 rpm 120GB drive, with SMART status verified. You're running OS X 10.5.8.
From this information, it would appear that your hardware is in good shape, so nothing to be done there. You could upgrade memory from 1.5GB to 2GB, however, I'm not sure that will solve your problem. I'm more concerned with lags when you play a DVD on your system. Streaming video over the internet is just not going to play well in all cases, which is a problem most all PowerBooks have to deal with today.
I would do the following.... first, download the 10.5.8 combo release from here. Using Disk Utility (on your hard drive in applications/utilities) repair permissions, then install the combo release, then when done, repair permissions again. The combo release contains all fixes to OS X 10.5, and sometimes can fix system issues. After that, run Software Update to pick up any other needed updates.
See if that affects how DVD video, not internet video, works. Better, no change, or worst?