jf: I ask almost nothing of this little iBook, which gets to travel with us and ingest our photos, which it then slowly backs up to cds. during our travels, I ask it to connect to the internet so I can use my email instead of a telephone. sometimes, it is willing but mostly not. When it refuses, we politely put it away since we don't know what else to do. It has never surfed the 'net so think it has no cookies or overloaded caches or other such detritus. I will check this at the library today. It has no files other than photos, all of which also live on the Powermac and are also backed up on duplicate CDs. The iBook functions as a storage device, much like a large, white compact flash card. It isn't connected to anything, including a printer. If it were not so painfully slow(at least compared to the other computer which is incredibly fast) when I do ask it to do something for me, I might ask more of it. I did buy it a Macmice mouse which doesn't work with it or with the powermac. I did download Graphic Converter because I didn't know that I could have a slideshow without it. (that download was quick and uneventful and took place at a hotel; iBook had no files except its own at that time) When I transferred the (photo) files via firewire (a GE brand wire) target disk mode, I had to call Apple because the thing wouldn't eject. The tech told me to shut the powermac down so that's what I did. These are probably non events, not clues. I don't fool with dashboard widgets. I looked up tabs and think it is about browsing, something that never occurs on this machine, either. the activity monitor shows that I have 9 out of 40 g left on the hd. It just seemed to me that it shouldn't take an hour to download a few software updates. the only time this machine has been connected to the internet is at hotels, at the LFPL and once at Mactown. At the library, I followed their directions and it connected without difficulty. I will try it again today. At the macgroup meeting, it took forever to connect.
This voluminous info. is probably useless, except to reveal the strange relationship of the computer illiterate to machines that I have heard could actually be used to run small nations. Thanks for the questions and suggestions. I appreciate all your help. Randy On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote: 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 | 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>
