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Post #8 by coius
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 29 Oct 2007 - 06:24
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/craigslist-emac-700mhz-130.10420/
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When I first installed 10.4, it was slow as hell. I mean, apps took like up to 4 minutes to launch. After doing all the updates, and repairing permissions (that was REALLY screwed up) and then running ALL the cron scripts

it seems to have settled down.

2 of the first things I did was to kill spotlight, and kill dashboard

it helped, but it still is a tad slow right now. I assume by tomorrow, it will be good as new :)

When I got it, it had like 128MB RAM, and it ran 10.2. Why in the heck would apple ship a machine with 128MB of ram on an X system? that's like suicide of a product line almost. The machines will swap like hell, and with the slow HDDs they put in there, it is just killing the system.

Anyways, these are the specs i have it at now:

17" eMac 700Mhz G4

64K L1 Cache/256K L2 (1:1 Ratio)

40GB ATA/66 HDD. apparently it's a 5400RPM.

DVD/CD-RW (DVD part is dead, will look into replacing that. I need time to go into the system)

Lucent Wifi Card (although it sticks out from the Optical bezel, which I am about to take off)

640MB PC-133 DIMM (128+512 :D )

apple Black Pro Keyboard, and Logitech wireless notebook mouse

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