Dan I am surprised at the great performance as it is an entry level Mac for Leopard. Wasn't expecting the performance to be as good as it is.
Simon On 8 Dec 2008, at 07:19, Dan wrote: > > At 10:07 PM +0000 12/7/2008, Simon Royal wrote: >> PowerBook G4 867Mhz >> Leopard. >> 768MB of RAM and maxes out at 1GB of RAM. >> >> It runs Leopard very well - to which I am quite surprised at. > > Why? Jobs doesn't pay gremlins to screw up Darwin in between each > release. > >> Would upping the RAM to 1GB make a noticeable difference in >> performance? > > Only YOU can answer that, based on YOUR system load. Don't guess - > KNOW. Use Activity Monitor to take a continuous look at how your > memory is being utilized. If *BOTH* the free and inactive lists are > tiny, then yes, you would benefit from adding more memory. Also take > a look at the Page Out rate... > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > --- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
