iBook G4 questions

[juan123]

Specs:

1.07ghz G4, 768mb RAM, last version of tiger, 80gb HD

1. I have a 80gb HD of which 7 gb are free. I'm wondering, what are some common places where tiger stores junk? (temp files etc)

2. How can I speed OS X up?

3. Would Leopard run as fast as tiger or faster?

4. Can I software overclock things?

5. What are some of your own speed tips?

Thanks a bunch!!

 

[Christopher]

The 16MB graphics and 32MB graphics G3 iBook's were the software over clockable machines, I don't think it will work for yours. It's not OS X that is sucking up all that. Check over your files. Do you really need all of them? if not get rid of some and put them on another machine or external hard drive. Leopard might be better at some things and lack in others. It's it and miss I believe. I use Onyx to get rid of uneeded OS X files. You do not have to do any digging with Onyx, it's all auto.

 

[bluekatt]

a full tiger install is around 4 gig with all printer drivers and letter types installed so the majority of that junk is either your own files or the aplications you are using got a lot of movies on there ?

more ram always helps

leopard wil perform about the same in some conditions slower in others and faster in yet others depends on what your doing

 

[wood_e]

huh - almost exactly the same as the book I picked up. There is no way the OS takes up that much space. Check the home folder for storage hogs.

 

[Temetka]

If you don't need the extra fonts and whatnot you can remove the language translations and the printer drivers. That should free up a few gigs.

Seriously though on a fresh install of either OS, you should have over 60GB free space.