Hey guys... I looked around and it doesn't seem like many people have attempted this...
I had an iBook G3, that was excruciatingly slow... as expected for a computer that is 10 years old. Just a couple of weeks back the HD inside the laptop died, so I decided to try and see what difference an Solid State Drive would make on a computer this old, and if it was worth it.
I ran into some problems, which forced me to open up the computer more times than I'd like... at least I'm iBook proficient now.. haha...
My thoughts... the SSD was definitely worth it... it used to be that the HD was the bottleneck, even though the computer's processing capabilities weren't exactly enterprise class, there was considerable amount of waste, in having the the rest of the system wait for the HD to catch up...
Now it seems that the bottleneck is the processor, since it is maxed most of the time with the HD easily breezing through....
The computer boots very fast... programs run very fast... all the 'fast' is a given, seeing as it's an SSD... a HUGE improvement, processing wise it's still the same, but at least I don't have to wait around since loading things is almost instant.
iBook G3 600MHz 640MB 32GB SSD
I had an iBook G3, that was excruciatingly slow... as expected for a computer that is 10 years old. Just a couple of weeks back the HD inside the laptop died, so I decided to try and see what difference an Solid State Drive would make on a computer this old, and if it was worth it.
I ran into some problems, which forced me to open up the computer more times than I'd like... at least I'm iBook proficient now.. haha...
My thoughts... the SSD was definitely worth it... it used to be that the HD was the bottleneck, even though the computer's processing capabilities weren't exactly enterprise class, there was considerable amount of waste, in having the the rest of the system wait for the HD to catch up...
Now it seems that the bottleneck is the processor, since it is maxed most of the time with the HD easily breezing through....
The computer boots very fast... programs run very fast... all the 'fast' is a given, seeing as it's an SSD... a HUGE improvement, processing wise it's still the same, but at least I don't have to wait around since loading things is almost instant.
iBook G3 600MHz 640MB 32GB SSD
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