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How well will it run

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trainguy77

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I am buying a G4 400mhz powerbook with 768mb Of RAM. It will be running itunes at thats about it. How well will it run it? The slowest machine i have ever used is 600mhz G3. So I have not idea how well it runs.
 
Almost any mac can run itunes. The processor is slow, but as i understand it, itunes is not a processor intensive application. It should run fine.
 
That machine will be fine for playing iTunes. It will be faster than your iBook G3 trainguy77. 🙂
 
I rarely use my G3, because it is in desperate need of RAM, and i am too cheap to spend that much on an obselete computer. It runs quite well, but having software update and one or two safari pages open pretty much maxes out my RAM. I just wish i could find something useful for it to do.
 
The performance of iTunes on my G3 450 MHz iMac has never been a problem. The computer came with 64 MB of RAM ... I added another 256 back in 2000 at time of purchase bringing the total to 320. The 256 module subsequently died one year ago and iTunes still is fine with only 64 MB of functioning memory. I use 250 MB of available hard disk space as virtual memory to help offset the loss of the real thing.
 
Deepdale said:
The performance of iTunes on my G3 450 MHz iMac has never been a problem. The computer came with 64 MB of RAM ... I added another 256 back in 2000 at time of purchase bringing the total to 320. The 256 module subsequently died one year ago and iTunes still is fine with only 64 MB of functioning memory.
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Is that under Classic or OSX 😱 ? If in OSX, then how does it even run? I now have 118 MB of Wired memory (that cannot be paged to HD) with only Safari, Mail, iChat and iTunes open!
 
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