i think the new powerbooks are coming out fall of next year?

Quote: Originally Posted by Arch. The 700 trade in deal for ti books goes untill March. I bet thats when they release the new PB's. Anyone wanna buy my 17? What do you mea…

OH MY GOD someone lock this thread it's from a year and a half ago.

Hi guys, I have: Rev. C Powerbook G4 667 DVI Firewire 400 768MB RAM OSX.2 4200RPM HD I am really tired of the spinning ball everytime I use the msnbc.com website, and the sluggis…

I'd stick with a 5400 RPM drive. From what I have seen in the benchmarks, the 7200's are nowhere near as fast as their RPM speed would lead you to think they are. That said, I we…

Quote: Originally posted by SuperGroove: In terms of performance, what is the better performing solutions; an external 7200RPM HD, which maxes out at 35MB/s, or an inter…

I'm not sure you would see any increase in speed on the MSN site with a fast HD. Info from page is coming over internet, not from your drive, so fast drive wouldn't have any effec…

I have to say that in principle HD speeds should not be the bottleneck for internet surfing, word, etc. But in reality, upgrading my wife's Pismo from a 4200 to a 5400 rpm interna…

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Ok, this is kind of embarassing, but I had my computer, in my backback with a computer sleeve, fall off of a 4 foot high table, onto the floor. I thought it got through the episod…

Lately, something seems slow about my pismo. On SNES9X it gets lower performance than my rev. C iMac, and video files, .avi files in particular have had horrible performance, dropp…

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RAM.

Quote: Originally posted by PowerMacMan: RAM. I realize that adding ram would help, but from what ive been told 320 mb should be plenty for just running one or two…

I run a 400 pismo with 320mb RAM and have never felt that my system suffered from a lack of RAM. I can't speak to the RAM requirements of SNES emulation, but my initial thoughts ar…

alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with less than 1 GB free on teh hard drive, Panther …

Quote: Originally posted by rjc3: alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with le…

Disk Warrior can also help with speed problems associated with suboptimal directories. This can happen even with a half empty HD -- scattered files really hurt the OS. I know with…

8megs of videoram... so the ext monitor MAY be the problem. if the pismo screen is completely useless, will be hard to confirm this. try some other screen resolutions? just a thou…

RAM -- Mac OS X alone, after just a little bit of web browsing, can easily take up hundreds and hundreds of MB of RAM. For example, all I have running now is iChat and Safari, but …

Trade up.

It may be too early in the lifetime of the G5 to answer this question, but I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it's possible to upgrade a G5 1.6 to one of the higher spee…

At this point, I think it's too early to tell what may happen. I don't think I've come across any detailed discussion about if there will ever be processor upgrades for the G5 mode…

I can tell you that there is no way to add a second processor to the 1.6GHz model. The connectors and glue circuits are missing from the motherboard.

Apple seems to have killed the upgrade market. Upgraded computers kill new sales and Apple is all about new sales.