At 8:56 AM -0700 3/20/2010, Pizzaboy192 wrote:
G3 500mhz Icebook
10.4.11 right now, has 320mb of ram, and a CD-rom drive.
Love them icebooks!
What I"m wondering is: What can I do to get the most out of this?
Disable Spotlight's indexing - it's a cpu and i/o bandwidth pig.
Disable Dashboard - it's a major memory pig.
The above has been discussed repeatedly on this and the g3-5-list.
Search the googlegroups archives. The threads have explicit
instructions etc.
Most importantly: CARPE DIMM! 320 MB is only a spit above the
minimum. (I ran on 384 MB for a while; it wasn't pretty).
Currently I have FireFox 3.6 on it, but Gmail takes forever in it's
normal Javascript state, and Basic HTML isn't much better. Any
software that you could reccomend?
Safari 4 (WebKit) is MUCH faster than Firefox (Gecko). It does quite
well with GMail on my 300-MHz Smurf. Be sure to turn off the
fraudulent site checking - that's a slow feature that really only
detects sites infected with windoze malware and other BS that we Mac
users don't really care about. If Safari thinks your machine is fast
enough to support page previews, turn that off too - big cpu pig.
(The JavaScript engine in WebKit is so much faster/better than
Firefox's, that the Mozilla developers have announced that they're
switching to it. We won't see that on our G3 Macs tho - the Firefox
3.6 line is the end for Tiger support. For 3.7 they've gone to
requiring Leopard or better, which requires a G4 or better too.
If you must go Firefox, then use RPM's optimized builds instead of
the standard releases. The optimized Firefox still isn't as fast as
Safari, but it's much better than the standard.
<http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/index.html>
Instead of using slow webmail interface, use a real email client.
Eudora is my fav but a lot of people like Apple Mail because it
handles HTML-based emails better (it uses WebKit!).
HTH,
- Dan.
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