My sister has a four year old PowerBook, 1.33 GHz G4, 256 MB memory, running Panther, and it is incredibly slow. It has nothing installed but Office 2004. And I mean really, really slow. She said it has been that way pretty much forever but never said anything because she did not know it was out of the ordinary
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. But I've used an iBook that was older than this PowerBook and it was faster, and it had a bunch of garbage installed on it. I have tried an Erase and Install on the PowerBook - no change.
This makes me think it is a hardware problem. But I do not know how to test for bad hardware other than the hard drive, which checks out okay. How do I test the RAM, CPU, etc. to see if there is a faulty component?
And, if I do find something not working properly, is there likely anything that can be done to fix it? I mean, it is four years old so obviously no Apple warranty / protection. Nonetheless I would like to know the cause of its slowness.
This makes me think it is a hardware problem. But I do not know how to test for bad hardware other than the hard drive, which checks out okay. How do I test the RAM, CPU, etc. to see if there is a faulty component?
And, if I do find something not working properly, is there likely anything that can be done to fix it? I mean, it is four years old so obviously no Apple warranty / protection. Nonetheless I would like to know the cause of its slowness.