Home▸ Forums▸ 68kMLA▸ Speed up iBook G4 Thread Speed up iBook G4 68kMLA Hardware 7 posts Dec 6, 2007 to Dec 10, 2007 View original thread ↗ #1 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 22:05 68kMLA I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than more ram, to make this computer faster ?? Thanks for any help!! #2 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 22:22 68kMLA use i freemem to fre eup your memory a faster hd but that might make it hot up more more ram off course kill dashboard if you dont need it its just extra overhead same goes for spotlight #3 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 23:09 68kMLA What version of the Mac OS are you running currently? #4 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 01:55 68kMLA running tiger.....all updates. #5 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 07:03 68kMLA Get a 7200RPM hard drive. It will be like night and day. #6 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 08:06 68kMLA but wont that run too hot for an ibook the hd's in my ibooks already run bloody hot as it is #7 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 - 22:57 68kMLA Try running ShadowKiller, it seems to get rid of window shadows and so use less resources. http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller
#1 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 22:05 68kMLA I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than more ram, to make this computer faster ?? Thanks for any help!!
#2 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 22:22 68kMLA use i freemem to fre eup your memory a faster hd but that might make it hot up more more ram off course kill dashboard if you dont need it its just extra overhead same goes for spotlight
#6 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 08:06 68kMLA but wont that run too hot for an ibook the hd's in my ibooks already run bloody hot as it is
#7 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 - 22:57 68kMLA Try running ShadowKiller, it seems to get rid of window shadows and so use less resources. http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller
