Speed up iBook G4

[juan123]

I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than more ram, to make this computer faster ?? Thanks for any help!!

 

[bluekatt]

use i freemem to fre eup your memory a faster hd but that might make it hot up more

more ram off course

kill dashboard if you dont need it its just extra overhead

same goes for spotlight

 

[~tl]

What version of the Mac OS are you running currently?

 

[juan123]

running tiger.....all updates.

 

[Temetka]

Get a 7200RPM hard drive.

It will be like night and day.

 

[bluekatt]

but wont that run too hot for an ibook

the hd's in my ibooks already run bloody hot as it is

 

[res8qr6m]

Try running ShadowKiller, it seems to get rid of window shadows and so use less resources.

http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller