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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
 Posted - 20 Apr 2002 : 08:53:11
I have my 540c, and I love her to pieces - but honestly, the last few weeks I've needed to use her from my mothers place, especially for browsing, she's s-o-o awfully slow. Most other things are fine, but browsers just seem to chunk down to something horribly slow whenever they're showing .jpgs or pages with a lot of tables - which is ebay and almost any forums like the 68kmla :D. For a 33mhz 040, I'd imagine she should be quicker than a 25Mhz Q605 or 475... but she's just -slower-. On my network, loading a page from a local webserver, file transfers slip down to around 300bytes/sec, due to so much decoding of jpgs. it's a pain. so now I've finished complaining - any solutions? Are 540's truly this sluggish compared to desktops when it comes to cpu intensive stuff? dana --
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 20 Apr 2002 : 10:50:07
Some sites are just going to take forever. For instance, I'm on my Duo 280c right now over a T3 line, and for the most part it's damn quick here and on other sites. But, some sites, like Mapquest, eBay and Tucows, seem to take ridiculously long to load. I should think, though, that the 68kmla board would be pretty fast on your 540c? What browser are you using? I've noticed that Netscape 4.08 is alot faster than iCab and crashes less often.666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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SpaceBoy
Full Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 20 Apr 2002 : 11:25:30
I'd have to agree- the hardware sounds plenty powerful, so it's time to looks at the software you're using. I'd recomend playing around with different browsers- they can vary wildly in speed on older hardware.
Good luck, and keep us posted!
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Captain Z
Mobile Ops Commander
USA
637 Posts |
Posted - 20 Apr 2002 : 21:47:05
Also, how much RAM do you have inside and allocated to your browser. If your not maxed out, look into getting the 32MB upgrade to bring your Powerbook up to 36MB of RAM. Make sure to allocate a good sized chunck of memory aside for your browser, because loading JPEGs and tables takes more memory than loading plain text.------------------
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Flash
Full Member
Australia
637 Posts |
Posted - 21 Apr 2002 : 04:08:51
I can sympathise dana. I'm typing this from my recently rebuilt PB500/PPC - which by rights should kick ass over any 520 or 540. It's got 40MB RAM (the PPC mobo has 8MB onboard RAM), OS 8.1 and using Exploder 4. So a reasonably well configured PowerBook (in fact: maxed out for what it is) and it's still sluggish.  So I could lower my standards and load 7.5.5 and other browsers, but compared to me ol' faithful LC475 (just like a 605 without feets  ) which had about the same RAM and OS.... ScoreBoard:
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 21 Apr 2002 : 06:15:43
Dana, how much ram do you have in your 540c? I often surf the web from my LC630, and it feels a lot like it does on my PowerBook 1400, which isn't too bad. Maybe you need to up your RAM?-------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
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Alien
Junior Member
Netherlands
269 Posts |
Posted - 23 Apr 2002 : 22:53:22
The PB500, like the 1400, suffers from a narrow bus.,xtG
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TiMacLover
Senior Member
USA
1282 Posts |
Posted - 24 Apr 2002 : 02:14:09
Just to bring this up but why the hell would anybody in their right mind get a G3/466Mhz upgrade in a 1400?!!! I mean one the bus speed, two the ram and three no OS X!Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 24 Apr 2002 : 05:12:30
quote:
so now I've finished complaining - any solutions? Are 540's truly this sluggish compared to desktops when it comes to cpu intensive stuff?
try loading a minimized OS and browser/cache into a RAM disk, that made a significant improvement for connecting with FirstClassBBS/dialup on my 100 back in the day. even with much smaller memory allocations it may help . . . . dunno!jt  ™. .
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 24 Apr 2002 : 07:27:17
quote:
Just to bring this up but why the hell would anybody in their right mind get a G3/466Mhz upgrade in a 1400?!!! I mean one the bus speed, two the ram and three no OS X!
As a geeky hobbyist thing to say "Guess what guys! My 1400 has a G3 upgrade!!!"...there was a person on MAF who hacked a L2 G3 upgrade into a 6200... --------------------
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 24 Apr 2002 : 12:00:03
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...there was a person on MAF who hacked a L2 G3 upgrade into a 6200...
COOL!!! a really fast buswidth impaired road apple! jt ™. .
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Alien
Junior Member
Netherlands
269 Posts |
Posted - 24 Apr 2002 : 14:07:59
I have a G3/333 in my 1400c/166, and at the price they're going for now, I'm seriously considering getting a G3/466 for my 1400c/133...There's a trick to increase the RAM on a 1400: use a Flash card as the virtual memory disk. ,xtG
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