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Speed up iBook G4

Speed up iBook G4 Hardware 7 posts Dec 6, 2007 — Dec 10, 2007

#1 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 - 22:05

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

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

What version of the Mac OS are you running currently?

#4 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 01:55

running tiger.....all updates.

#5 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 07:03

Get a 7200RPM hard drive.

It will be like night and day.

#6 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 - 08:06

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

Try running ShadowKiller, it seems to get rid of window shadows and so use less resources.

http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller