• Powerbook G4 laggy/ wont load correctly on most sites
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HELLO, i am running a powerbook g4, has a 867mhz proc with 256mb ram running mac os x 10.2.8 jaguar. was curious if upgrading to mac os x tiger and giving it 1gb ram would fix my lag and load the sites correctly instead of a grey ugly html text look. Youtube videos load on here but they look bad and are laggy. Will upgrading to 1gb ram and tiger help this or am i just fucked? i would assume a laptop like this has enough power to do regular computer use. videos, flash shit, email, music, file shit, etc ( :v: porn )
With those specs, I doubt it.
I've seen other powerbooks with similar specs do what i asked for. Im just curious if upgrading to Tiger and giving it more memory would let me do Youtube, flash, etc junk just fine. My friend says no but i disagree but i wanna be sure. Ive even seen powerbooks run leopard just fine.
Dear lord... You're stuck in the 90's.... QUICK SOMEONE GET THIS MAN A NEW MAC!
G4 is far too slow for most internet work now. The G5 is slowly going the same route.
The thing about older apple machines is they had shitty GPUs, so the CPU is forced to do all of the work. If you had a G4 desktop, you could upgrade the video card, but a laptop is pretty much stuck what it is. More RAM will help, but it won't be a significant gain.
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