Slowness Explained
For the last couple of weeks, my PowerBook G4 has been unbearably slow. Now “one or two extra Dock bounces” slow. CRAWLING.
I just now figured out why: half my RAM is dead. I got the machine with 1 GB and am now down to 512 MB. What a difference that makes! As I’ve committed to waiting until MacBook Pros are shipping with OS 10.5 Leopard installed before upgrading (November, at the earliest), I’m definitely going to have to get that fixed. It’s really slowing down my work. I got the extended warranty and there is an Apple store in Tampa. I wonder what the odds are that I can get it fixed up same-day while I wait?
