iBook Clamshell Q & A's!

[Booncy]

Oops! I apologize for that stupid/n00bish mistake :P.

Here are the statistics for my iBook Blueberry Clamshell Laptop:

- It has Mac 9.2 set on it
- A 60 gb hard drive
- The RAM disk is set to: 100%, and the RAM disk size is: 125440K
- The Virtual Memory is set to: 300M, 56821M is available for use on disk, and 37M is available for the built-in-memory.


Also my Verizon DSL Router is the Westell VersaLink 327W Model

[fryke]

Erh.. I'd shut that RAM Disk down, if you don't really need it. RAM will be more helpful to you, probably. You really have a 60 GB disk in that, not a 6 GB one?

[Booncy]

Originally Posted by fryke

Erh.. I'd shut that RAM Disk down, if you don't really need it. RAM will be more helpful to you, probably. You really have a 60 GB disk in that, not a 6 GB one?

Positive! I recently had it upgraded to one!

[camgangrel21]

Yeah that RAM disk that you have setup is what is slowing down your system even for network. So unless you need it (For what god would only know.) shut it down. Because what ever you put in it is gone as soon as you reboot or shutdown so why do you need RAM disk? When you have a big hard drive.

[Booncy]

Originally Posted by camgangrel21

Yeah that RAM disk that you have setup is what is slowing down your system even for network. So unless you need it (For what god would only know.) shut it down. Because what ever you put in it is gone as soon as you reboot or shutdown so why do you need RAM disk? When you have a big hard drive.

The only reason why I increased it in the first place was because you suggested in your last post.

[Booncy]

Okay everyone! My internet is finally up. I finally figured out what the problem was. I had the home page set to msn.com instead of apple.com, and that's why it would never fully load. I changed it back to apple, and all my favorite websites that I usually like to go to seem to be working and loading properly. The only thing I hate about it is that everything on all the pages of my favorite websites seem so smushed and clumped together on this medium sized laptop screen. I'm definetely sooner or later going to upgrade this computer even further by purchasing the Mac Panther to see if that resolves the tiny screen resolution on my internet explorer.

[Booncy]

Originally Posted by amrcnidt961

Yup. You can go as far as 10.3.9 (Panther) without much effort. Just make sure you have a clamshell with a Hard Drive that is 6GB or bigger..3.2 it just barely enough. Also, make sure you have enough RAM. Panther likes anything from 128 (minimally).

10.4 is possible, but takes a much more difficult process to install. If you feel up to it, I'd be glad to help you out.

Hope this answers your second question well.

Joey Lange
MacOSX.com Volunteer

Thanks for the help! I've finally saved up enough money and now I'm going to purchase the Mac 10.4 tiger program. If I have any problems and need any help installing it I'll let you know.

Aaron Green


P.S.: I just have 2 more questions to ask you guys:

1.Before I purchase this product I just want to make sure about this, so I reiterate: Can the Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6 (Mac DVD) be installed on a Blueberry iBook Clamshell Laptop?

and

2.Lol, I'm curious as to why Mac labels their computer software products to animals of the jungle?