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2003 / OSX Jaguar

« on: June 11, 2003, 06:13:04 PM »

Kelly,

Hello, and thanks for the welcome.  I'm not sure if more RAM is possible for this little iBook - it has 64 built in and only one additional slot - the largest block I could get for it was 256, and that was a year ago, but it's worked wonders.  The computer came with OSX 10.1, and all was good - I upgraded to 10.2 and that's when things seemed to slow down a little bit.  RobW's suggestion about the file permissions did help a great deal, but I can't help thinking that all those additional packages of languages, etc. during the upgrade are slowing things (if nothing else, they are using disk space), so I was looking for an easy way to get rid of them - I'm not comfortable with the inner workings of OSX yet and I don't want to cripple the operating system.

Thanks,
Brandon

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2003 / OSX Jaguar

« on: June 10, 2003, 09:47:27 AM »

Thanks RobW and kps.

I greatly appreciate any help in this area - I can make a mac work, but some of the inner tricks and tips still elude me.  I apologize for not giving more information about the computer - it is an iBook with a 500 MHz PowerPC G3 chip, 320 MB of RAM, and it is running OSX version 10.2.6 - I tend to be good with the updates.  I have no idea why such an update (to Jaguar) would slow things down, but opening programs or running multiple programs now seems to be more of a strain on it.  Most noticably, it does take considerably longer to start up or shut down than it did before the upgrade.

RobW - thanks for the "repair permissions" suggestion - there were many things to be fixed, so I did repair, and I will see what changes that makes and keep you posted.

Thanks again,
Brandon

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2003 / OSX Jaguar

« on: June 09, 2003, 09:24:47 PM »

Hello,
I was referred to this forum for mac issues, so I hope someone out there can help me.

I have an iBook - the new one running OSX. I upgraded to OSX Jaguar (10.2) a while ago for some of the new features - mainly iSync. All is good, but the only complaint I have is that now it just seems so much slower than before. This may be in part due to the fact that I let it install all of its packages (including native languages that I don't really need).

The question is - does anyone know of similar issues, and is there an easy fix? Can these extra language packages be removed now? Any other ideas?

Thanks for the help,
Brandon