Performance sucks (iBook G3 900)
Hi everybody,
the performance of my iBook G3 900 is - to put it nicely - horrible. Although I've reinstalled Panther just a few weeks ago and have 640MBs of RAM installed (maximum possible), even the easiest tasks seem to take my iBook to it's limits.
Scrolling websites in Safari (not to speak of Firefox or Camino), especially if they contain any Flash animations, makes me think that web browsing requires a GeForce of the latest Generation.
Opening dialogue-boxes or just browsing through the menus of Word (v X) seems to require at least a Quad G5, scrolling up and down in my documents is no more better.
Opening Thunderbird takes about 2 minutes, using Photoshop Elements (2.0) is nearly impossible.
So, my question: Did I miss some kind of option, or is my iBook really that outdated, 2,5 years after I bought it?
I'm not sure whether the pre-installed Jaguar was that slow, too, but I'm quite sure that it wasn't that bad. Especially browsing the net seems to have gotten worse, and I'm more and more using my (Windows-) PC, just because using my Mac keeps frustrating me.
Looking forward to your answers or ideas,
Martin
PS: Ignore my bad english, I'm from Old Europe 😉
iBook G3 900 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 40GB, 640MB, Airport
the performance of my iBook G3 900 is - to put it nicely - horrible. Although I've reinstalled Panther just a few weeks ago and have 640MBs of RAM installed (maximum possible), even the easiest tasks seem to take my iBook to it's limits.
Scrolling websites in Safari (not to speak of Firefox or Camino), especially if they contain any Flash animations, makes me think that web browsing requires a GeForce of the latest Generation.
Opening dialogue-boxes or just browsing through the menus of Word (v X) seems to require at least a Quad G5, scrolling up and down in my documents is no more better.
Opening Thunderbird takes about 2 minutes, using Photoshop Elements (2.0) is nearly impossible.
So, my question: Did I miss some kind of option, or is my iBook really that outdated, 2,5 years after I bought it?
I'm not sure whether the pre-installed Jaguar was that slow, too, but I'm quite sure that it wasn't that bad. Especially browsing the net seems to have gotten worse, and I'm more and more using my (Windows-) PC, just because using my Mac keeps frustrating me.
Looking forward to your answers or ideas,
Martin
PS: Ignore my bad english, I'm from Old Europe 😉
iBook G3 900 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 40GB, 640MB, Airport