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etes
Guest
Hello there
I have been a switcher for about a couple of month and here is my story/problem:
I wanted to try OS X but had almost no $$, I ended up picking up a G3 400, 512MB RAM, with the original 12GB HDD. It came with OS X 10.1.
Then I bought a copy of Panther 10.3 and slapped that on the G3. I also replaced the HDD with a brand new 40GB 7200 RPM drive.
So Panther is faster, a lot faster (10.1 was so slooow), but it is still slow and choppy for no reason. Examples:
- Safari or FireFox both will get super slow after being used for 20min, like
switching tabs or opening a link has a lag in it. (and Activity Monitor shows
they use over 100MB of memory .. what !!)
- Switching between windows becomes slow... sometime.
- scrolling is always super slow (especially in browsers and Acrobat Reader)
- Acrobat Reader 7 is just way too slow... can barely use it.
- Flash movies/clips (such as Flash ads !) look laggy and skip in browsers.
- even MSN messenger is slow !
- I open Activity Monitor and see that when things lag and the colored |
spinning ball comes the CPU is at 100%... I cant do anything at taht point
and it happens A LOT
Ok so all of these are simple apps and these things happen when just ONE thing is running (not running 2~3 progams).
I am comparing the speed of apps (like broswing) with my Pentium III-500 which has 384MB RAM (so less than my G3, but both PC100), both systems are ATA-33 drive controller, and the G3 has a faster newer drive (new 7200 rpm comapred to old 20GB 7200rpm which has longer access time). The PC has Win XP SP2 with a lot of visual effects and Norton AntiVirus (which slows down even more) ... G3 is fresh install of Panther with almost no apps installed.
Loading apps and specially loading OS X is fast ... but everything else lags and i feel as if i am using the whole thing in slow motion.
I have disabled things like the jumping icons in dock, use Scale effect (rather than the other one) and always clear cache and stuff.
What can I do ?? Why is OS X so slow ?? I am not doing anything, just simple browsing shouldnt need a 2 GHz CPU !!
Thanks a lot
I have been a switcher for about a couple of month and here is my story/problem:
I wanted to try OS X but had almost no $$, I ended up picking up a G3 400, 512MB RAM, with the original 12GB HDD. It came with OS X 10.1.
Then I bought a copy of Panther 10.3 and slapped that on the G3. I also replaced the HDD with a brand new 40GB 7200 RPM drive.
So Panther is faster, a lot faster (10.1 was so slooow), but it is still slow and choppy for no reason. Examples:
- Safari or FireFox both will get super slow after being used for 20min, like
switching tabs or opening a link has a lag in it. (and Activity Monitor shows
they use over 100MB of memory .. what !!)
- Switching between windows becomes slow... sometime.
- scrolling is always super slow (especially in browsers and Acrobat Reader)
- Acrobat Reader 7 is just way too slow... can barely use it.
- Flash movies/clips (such as Flash ads !) look laggy and skip in browsers.
- even MSN messenger is slow !
- I open Activity Monitor and see that when things lag and the colored |
spinning ball comes the CPU is at 100%... I cant do anything at taht point
and it happens A LOT
Ok so all of these are simple apps and these things happen when just ONE thing is running (not running 2~3 progams).
I am comparing the speed of apps (like broswing) with my Pentium III-500 which has 384MB RAM (so less than my G3, but both PC100), both systems are ATA-33 drive controller, and the G3 has a faster newer drive (new 7200 rpm comapred to old 20GB 7200rpm which has longer access time). The PC has Win XP SP2 with a lot of visual effects and Norton AntiVirus (which slows down even more) ... G3 is fresh install of Panther with almost no apps installed.
Loading apps and specially loading OS X is fast ... but everything else lags and i feel as if i am using the whole thing in slow motion.
I have disabled things like the jumping icons in dock, use Scale effect (rather than the other one) and always clear cache and stuff.
What can I do ?? Why is OS X so slow ?? I am not doing anything, just simple browsing shouldnt need a 2 GHz CPU !!
Thanks a lot