Comment Re:Piracy (Score 2, Informative) 319
You might want to consider ADDING MEMORY to that machine. With OS X being UNIX based, it either uses memory, or goes to a swap file (look these terms up, if they sound weird to you). Swap is bad, as it's dog slow... Your PowerBook is most likely in Swap Hell.
OS X makes a dramatic speed jump once a system goes above 512mb of RAM - 768 mb is the sweet spot. So, if you have one 256mb SO-DIMM in there, add another 512mb, and you should notice a significant speed increase.
Also, bear in mind tha such an old machine has an equally old hard drive - read: slow hard drive, which translates into further slowness.
I still kept my old Pismo at 500MHz - and with a fast 5400rpm hard drive, and 1 gig of RAM, it runs OS X Tiger just fine, and, in fact, pretty much flies for most operations.
OS X makes a dramatic speed jump once a system goes above 512mb of RAM - 768 mb is the sweet spot. So, if you have one 256mb SO-DIMM in there, add another 512mb, and you should notice a significant speed increase.
Also, bear in mind tha such an old machine has an equally old hard drive - read: slow hard drive, which translates into further slowness.
I still kept my old Pismo at 500MHz - and with a fast 5400rpm hard drive, and 1 gig of RAM, it runs OS X Tiger just fine, and, in fact, pretty much flies for most operations.
