Dear Kirk, Thank you for your comment, but:
On 2003-02-16 20:24, "Kirk McElhearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/16/03 19:54, "SVEN AERTS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That my iBook has VRAM: 8 MB >> Ah, and I also notice these other RAM's: >> Mininum RAM Speed: 133 Mhz >> Onboard RAM: 128 MB >> >> Let me now have a look at the Clamshell >> Ibook P1 (300Mhz): VRAM: 4 MB, surprisingly: Maximum RAM: 288/320 MB ... So >> those 512 dont fit ? >> iBook SE (366Mhz) : VRAM: 4 MB Maximum RAM: 288/320 MB >> >> What's the recommended powerconfig for OSX? > > Well, first, you cannot change the video ram. It's soldered on the video > card. 8 MB is not enough for Quartz Extreme, and that's one of the reasons > why things are slow. 'slow' ? cf: http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html " Mac OS X v10.2 delivers across-the-board optimisations to Quartz that make your system more responsive, no matter what the hardware. You will detect a small improvement if you have a G3 processor. You will notice faster window redraws and scrolling if you have a G4 processor. They will be more remarkable if you have multiple G4 processors. But the real innovation in Mac OS X version 10.2 comes with Quartz " Is my processor a G3 or G4 ? But anyhow, I have OSX.2.4 ... So it should be faster. As on the diagram at: http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html But you are right about: Requirements for Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX or GeForce4 Ti, or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required. > It explains why the same Mac is much faster under OS 9. No, it doesn't. OSX.2 should be faster according to above... But only for moving windows. That EntX is slow... Must be something else. > As for the total RAM, 128 is not much - if you can double it, things will go > much faster. You are probably using a couple of swap files - or more - which > slows things down a lot. My old clamshell iBook had 320 MB, and it was still > relatively slow in basic operations and screen redraws. I added 512 MB. Sven > > Kirk > > > Author of: Unix for Mac OS X: Learning the Command Line (Sept. 2003) > Author of: Switch! Mac OS X for Former Windows Users (July 2003) > Co-author of: Macworld Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible (April 2003) > Co-author of: Microsoft Office v. X Inside Out > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.mcelhearn.com . . . . . . > . . Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France . . > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
