How do i speed my mac up?

[chriscon]

Hi,

I have a 500mhz Power PC G4 and need to make it quicker, i have another similar mac which is 450mhz but it performs faster than the higher spec one. Could anyone tell me ways of making my mac perform faster, i know it isn't a Ram issue as there is already 1.25 gb in it, any help would be helpful!

Also i have just instaled a second int hard drive in it as the basic 40gb is full, would this slow it down? would it help if i was to move a lot of this work onto the second 80gig drive?

Thanks in advance

[ElectricSheep]

Hi,

I have a 500mhz Power PC G4 and need to make it quicker, i have another similar mac which is 450mhz but it performs faster than the higher spec one. Could anyone tell me ways of making my mac perform faster, i know it isn't a Ram issue as there is already 1.25 gb in it, any help would be helpful!

Also i have just instaled a second int hard drive in it as the basic 40gb is full, would this slow it down? would it help if i was to move a lot of this work onto the second 80gig drive?

Thanks in advance

Assuming you are running MacOS X, then yes; having a full startup disk can hurt performance and is also unsafe. Running any HFS+ volume at greater than 90% capacity can lead to filesystem corruption (given the right conditions).

[chriscon]

cheers for the reply,

so you recommend i move a lot of my files on the new drive then? Anything else that would help speed?

[epochblue]

Running maintenance scripts and optimizing your system relatively often might help too. These things will get done automatically, but might help a little if run more frequently.

I'd recommend a program like OnyX. You can also use OnyX to turn off some of the more superfluous eye-candy that might drag your system a bit.

OnyX can be found here: http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html