On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I did disable dashboard. It's the one thing I have never used (and now that you mention it... I"ve never needed spotlight except for cheating in Microsoft Office class) > > 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). RAM has been my biggest hurdle. I've got a whole box of SO-DIMM ram, but none bigger than 256mb. I'd love to upgrade, except that it's so expensive. > >> 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!). > Only reason I'm sticking with FireFox is because of adblock. Flash will kill my system faster than bad java. If there's an adblocker for Safari (Even if it's not free) I'd love to hear about it. -- pizzaboy192 > HTH, > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > g-books+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- -Proudly Sent from a Windows PC -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g-books+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
