I'm not the only one, right? Buy-a-new-Macbook-pro motivator upgrade? Everything was spiffing right along until 10.4.6 -- and now my 1.25 Powerbook G4 is dog slow.
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10.4.6 sloooowwww?
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i know a lot of people complain about xbench, but while i used to get scores aroudn 54 on my powerbook, after 10.4.6 i haven't managed to get anything above 45...
I've got a 1.25 Ghz Powerbook and haven't noticed any major slowdown. Is it something in particular that you're running?
10.4.6 seems to have some sort of memory leak, or something else as it shuts down my system without notice.
The RAM, etc..are fine as I have done the tests.
The RAM, etc..are fine as I have done the tests.
Applespider said:
Nope, nothing peculiar. In fact, mostly Apple's iApps. But several apps running at once. It's not like the worst thing ever, it's just obviously slower than before -- obvious to me, anyway. I restarted and everything is a little better; but I restarted before and it was better for a while before getting all sludgy again.
Scarlet Fever said:
Yeah but technically you have a totally different OS running on a totally different architecture. For me, start up time is fine; it's the running thing that's slower.
i meant it loads faster than 10.4.5sanford said:
But yeah it does load faster than my 2002 800MHz G4 iMac
Hi There ...
Slowing down After Update? Reboot a couple of times..
Problems After an Update?
1. Start up in Safe Mode .. this will run the "Repair Disk" utility.
Be sure the computer is turned off.
Now press the power button.
Just after you hear the startup tone (NOT BEFORE), press and hold down
the shift key.
Now release the shift key when you see the start up screen with the gray
background with the Apple logo and the progress indicator.
During the startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen.
To leave the Mac OS X Safe Mode just restart your Mac normally, without
holding any keys during the startup period.
2. Download and Run this ...Onyx
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582
Go to Automation Pane ..
Check all the boxes EXCEPT
1. Optimize the system
2. Hidden DS Store Files
3. Links between documents and applications
Also choose "Clear All" in the button box for caches. Then execute
These settings perform three basic troubleshooting procedures ...
1. Repair permissions
2. Run Unix maintenance (cron) scripts
3. Clear caches
Before any system or security update ..
1. Disconnect all peripherals except keyboard and mouse ..
2. Make sure sleep and screensaver are disabled ....
3. Quit all other apps ..
Mac OSX Speed Troubleshooting
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
Tuning Up OSX - The X Lab
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
Slowing down After Update? Reboot a couple of times..
Problems After an Update?
1. Start up in Safe Mode .. this will run the "Repair Disk" utility.
Be sure the computer is turned off.
Now press the power button.
Just after you hear the startup tone (NOT BEFORE), press and hold down
the shift key.
Now release the shift key when you see the start up screen with the gray
background with the Apple logo and the progress indicator.
During the startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen.
To leave the Mac OS X Safe Mode just restart your Mac normally, without
holding any keys during the startup period.
2. Download and Run this ...Onyx
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582
Go to Automation Pane ..
Check all the boxes EXCEPT
1. Optimize the system
2. Hidden DS Store Files
3. Links between documents and applications
Also choose "Clear All" in the button box for caches. Then execute
These settings perform three basic troubleshooting procedures ...
1. Repair permissions
2. Run Unix maintenance (cron) scripts
3. Clear caches
Before any system or security update ..
1. Disconnect all peripherals except keyboard and mouse ..
2. Make sure sleep and screensaver are disabled ....
3. Quit all other apps ..
Mac OSX Speed Troubleshooting
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
Tuning Up OSX - The X Lab
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
I haven't really noticed a slow down, but things like Safari and Mail seem to crash a bit more frequently.
I thought my iBook got a little slower after updating, and glad to know it isn't just me. Things just seem a little more sluggish and I get the infamous beachball a bit more often, and this is a 1.2GHz G4 with 1.25GB of RAM.
You are absolutely right. Right after installing 10.4.6 the computer takes at LEAST 4x SLOWER to start up. (10 seconds, would be 40 seconds).
Then the computer runs as slow as a Macintosh 128k, until you restart it again, and then everythings back to normal... at least for me.
Then the computer runs as slow as a Macintosh 128k, until you restart it again, and then everythings back to normal... at least for me.
berg said:
Thanks, I did the safe boot and Onyx. It took a while to do it. Not sure it made it any faster.
i went to 10.4.6 on my G4 powerbook yesterday... after i upgraded, i re-started like it says but it was through the start up process twice. is that bad? since then it's worked ok but i haven't re-started again...
^^ Double restart on on PPC is normal.
wrt the rest of the gripes..mine's fine (yeah, yeah, I know...I'm alright Jack). I installed after the day of release and my 1.33 G4 iBook has been running for eleven days. Safari is still slow, even with SafariSpeed applied, but then it always was, so I'm not any more put out than normal by its lousy performance. I'd use Firefox but I can't bear the Cartoon Network interface. Only issue I've had was a spinning beachball in iTunes when I inserted a scratched CD, which is probably normal anyway
wrt the rest of the gripes..mine's fine (yeah, yeah, I know...I'm alright Jack). I installed after the day of release and my 1.33 G4 iBook has been running for eleven days. Safari is still slow, even with SafariSpeed applied, but then it always was, so I'm not any more put out than normal by its lousy performance. I'd use Firefox but I can't bear the Cartoon Network interface. Only issue I've had was a spinning beachball in iTunes when I inserted a scratched CD, which is probably normal anyway
SBBOD- mine is Dog slow...
I have a significant slowdown as well on my 1.33 12" PB 1.25 GB RAM- it is my pride and joy as it heats up it gets slower and slower. once i get to this point I often have to hold down the poer button to reboot - at at that point I sometimes get the grey screen.
I have a significant slowdown as well on my 1.33 12" PB 1.25 GB RAM- it is my pride and joy as it heats up it gets slower and slower. once i get to this point I often have to hold down the poer button to reboot - at at that point I sometimes get the grey screen.
