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kisskisskiss

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Nov 30, 2007
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I have an old iBook G4 (1.2 GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD) that is quite slow but physically in great condition. I want to strip all the unnecessary crap off it, leaving just what's necessary and Firefox/Safari, Adium, SlingPlayer, TextEdit (OK, I guess I'm leaving one unnecessary item on it) and making it as fast as possible, as my newer MacBook Pro is working fine as my "main" computer and I mostly just want a secondary road machine to tote around. Should I just do a complete reinstall of Leopard on it or is there a better way to retain what I do already want before using the nuclear option?
 

JesterJJZ

macrumors 68020
Jul 21, 2004
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Well if you want speed maybe you should consider installing Tiger or even Panther on it as those will run faster than Leopard on your machine.
 

dukeblue91

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Oct 7, 2004
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I have the same iBook and it runs faster with a clean install of 10.5 then it did with tiger.
So yes do a fresh install and just keep the programs you want and perhaps install a 1 ghz ram module in it.
My son uses it every day for web, email, homework and playing his star wars and other games.
 

eldino

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Mar 8, 2007
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Italy
Fresh install + a checkup of the disk with DiskWarrior. It did miracles on my iBook 1.33.
 
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