Now that you have introduced me to the Activity Monitor and its help library, from what I can tell, which is about as much as I can tell when looking under my car's hood, nothing is out of order. Since I can't attach it to the internet here, I don't know what the network monitor says so will take it to the library today and see what that reveals. I wonder if there are other activities I should monitor while it's online or if that one will yield important info or not. Needless to say, when clicking on help articles placed me in the developer connections, I fled. Is there a particular measurement which indicates that something is amiss?
Thanks very much for your help. Randy On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: While it is true that OS X gets unhappy when hard drive space gets very low, having 6 GB available should be plenty and, no, that shouldn't be causing any noticeable slowdowns, especially given that you have 1 GB or RAM. I often run my PowerBook G4 with 3 GB of hard drive space remaining and haven't noticed a slowdown. Nor is that normal with a wireless connection, which I also use. Is this slowdown noticeable in a particular program? Are you leaving a lot of programs active (running in the background) at one time? Have you tried running Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities) to see if certain programs or processes are using up a high percentage of CPU or disk resources? Dan Crutcher > 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 > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
