My current G4 (my first mac, price was right, and all that) clocks at 400MHz, has 512MB Ram, plus an additional 64MB simm, so it is actually at 576MB if I am correct.
HDD (internal) is 30GB, 17GB Free. I also have an external HDD 150GB. I have a 6GB HDD I have been considering putting in, but even on a G4 I cannot see the benefits of such a small drive.
I ordered new RAM, will be upgrading it to 1GB (2GB if the G4 will allow it, I have heard two different versions of that story).
Yet, as it stands, the processor is only 400MHz, and a new Mac and a CPU upgrade are not within my budget at the moment, but definitely in the 'must have' section of my list of things to get.
Anyway, what are some solid ways to tweak the OS to get better streaming video playback? I know that the 400MHz wasn't created to handle high quality video streaming, but there has to be things I can do to at least improve performance. Youtube vids are choppy at best, I can't even tell the difference between a video and a slideshow anymore. Audio plays fine, video is crap.
So, software tweaks to increase performance? Anyway to use my external HDD as either pure Virtual Memory, or migrate the entire install to the external. I already used superduper to clone the my internal HDD to the external, but read that the G4 was unable to boot USB. I am on tiger (10.4.11) so I am pretty sure no updates will be available, kind of old, lol).
Thanks ahead of time.
HDD (internal) is 30GB, 17GB Free. I also have an external HDD 150GB. I have a 6GB HDD I have been considering putting in, but even on a G4 I cannot see the benefits of such a small drive.
I ordered new RAM, will be upgrading it to 1GB (2GB if the G4 will allow it, I have heard two different versions of that story).
Yet, as it stands, the processor is only 400MHz, and a new Mac and a CPU upgrade are not within my budget at the moment, but definitely in the 'must have' section of my list of things to get.
Anyway, what are some solid ways to tweak the OS to get better streaming video playback? I know that the 400MHz wasn't created to handle high quality video streaming, but there has to be things I can do to at least improve performance. Youtube vids are choppy at best, I can't even tell the difference between a video and a slideshow anymore. Audio plays fine, video is crap.
So, software tweaks to increase performance? Anyway to use my external HDD as either pure Virtual Memory, or migrate the entire install to the external. I already used superduper to clone the my internal HDD to the external, but read that the G4 was unable to boot USB. I am on tiger (10.4.11) so I am pretty sure no updates will be available, kind of old, lol).
Thanks ahead of time.