Other more intelligent beings will walk you through what I suspect to be a wireless problem. Are you are saying that your just internet connection is slow, or your overall system? Have you cleared your browser caches, history, and cleaned out your cookies? Do you have lots of tabs enabled that are loading in the background? Do you have lots of Dashboard widgets to load?
Installing Photoshop should have no ill effect, but remember Photoshop always writes to disk and with 6G available?most likely heavily fragmented?Photoshop performance would be less than optimal. I would suggest that you have an inordinate amount of files on disk. I hope you have all those G's of files backed up! I've been known to use Photoshop, always have over 50%+ disk available on a 20G iBook, and rely heavily on a fast external drive for file storage for all but active projects...jf On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:08 AM, rangrsz263 at mac.com wrote: > Hi: > > I have only about 6 g. available on my iBook G4 (1.33ghz. with 1g > ram) and wonder if that's why the machine is so slow or if that is > normal with a wireless connection with this type of computer. I > have a router that I never connected and was thinking about having > it set up until I used the iBook wirelessly at the last meeting and > discovered how slow it is. I was going to install photoshop on it, > too, but am afraid that would slow it down even more whether it's > wireless or not. In october, I took it to the library (free > hotspot) so I could update the software which I thought would take > a couple of minutes but it took nearly an hour. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Randy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060223/328ef261/attachment.bin
