10-11-2007, 03:55 PM

Hey,

My mac has become really slow and gradually overloaded with junk. I am interested in restoring it fully to its factory settings. Is this possible? If so, how is it done? I am currently using Tiger which appears to be too adavanced for the hardware. When I bought it, it came with Panther. However, I have since misplaced the discs.

It has a 1.25 GHz Power PC G4 processor and 256mb RAM.

Any help would this restoration would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave

10-13-2007, 06:28 AM

Tiger should run fine on your machine, I have a slower iBook which runs it perfectly well.
You will need to back up all your important data and then do a clean install from the Tiger disc.
If you do not have any discs, you are a bit stuck I'm afraid!

10-13-2007, 06:32 AM

256 Megs RAM is no where near enough for Tiger to run smoothly on any machine leave alone a G4. Up the RAM as far as you can go but at least to 512 Megs (I would go to 1GB) and do what Kevriano said and do a clean install of Tiger and things will move a lot faster.

Is yours the 17" iMac 1.25Ghz that looks like a Lamp?

http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/17-125.html

1GB Max RAM and it's PC2700 DDR.

10-13-2007, 08:09 AM

I have to say that Tiger does run smoothly with 256, but more RAM is always good. I am using it now on this G4 iBook which only has 256. I also have the iMac that "looks like a lamp" but only an 800 model, with 512 of RAM, and that also runs Tiger fine, even with it's HD almost full!
I would only be tempted to add more if I were doing a lot of photoshop/graphics work.

10-13-2007, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Kevriano

I have to say that Tiger does run smoothly with 256, but more RAM is always good. I am using it now on this G4 iBook which only has 256. I also have the iMac that "looks like a lamp" but only an 800 model, with 512 of RAM, and that also runs Tiger fine, even with it's HD almost full!
I would only be tempted to add more if I were doing a lot of photoshop/graphics work.

When I first purchased my G4 mini it came stock with 256 Megs RAM. With Tiger and just Mail and Safari open, I opened itunes and music was skipping and the system was running out of RAM. Going to 512 Megs fixed it and I never had that issue again.

10-14-2007, 02:17 AM

Interesting. I will say I have no music on the iBook, as I share it wirelessly from my main Mac, and it plays fine of course.
Horses for courses, the more you do, the more ram you need.