Tom Thanks for that.
Firefox is one of those apps that seem to struggle a little at times. Both my Macs are G4s running Leopard, I will check out the G4 version. Simon On 7 Dec 2008, at 22:14, Thom White wrote: > > On 7 Dec 2008, at 22:07, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a PowerBook G4 867Mhz and it is running Leopard. It has 768MB >> of RAM and maxes out at 1GB of RAM. >> >> It runs Leopard very well - to which I am quite surprised at. Would >> upping the RAM to 1GB (via removing the 256MB and replacing it with a >> 512MB) make a noticeable difference in performance? >> >> RAM for these are quite expensive and I want to know if it is worth >> it. > > I doubt the 256 extra would make a lot of difference. You'd probably > get better results from choosing your apps more carefully - such as > the G4 optimized version of Firefox (Bon echo?) and other apps with a > smaller memory footprint. > > Oh, and avoid coverflow in Finder. That will bring my works dual G5 to > it's knees. > > Thom > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
