03-10-2009, 02:01 PM
Buzz
" . . I suspect you could probably find folks to donate a couple of 256MB DIMMS and a 40GB -120GB to your cause . ."
Thanks for your suggestions especially the portion above on 'donations'."
Major Breakthrough in Browser Stability
I switched browsers to Camino 1.6.6 from Safari 1.3.2 and I'm encouraged because the results constitute a major breakthrough with respect to browser stability while surfing. In her case, I prioritize stability significantly higher than speed as I know she understands and accepts that dial-up provides slow internet response. I surfed about 30 minutes using dial-up without Camino locking up. I'll need to manually "stress test" to ensure the stability holds up.
Following what I consider the breakthrough in stability your post and suggestion about RAM triggered me to compare RAM in my G4 PM, mentioned in my post of March 09, 2009 04:23PM, with that in the iMac. Bingo, System Profiler reported PC100-2225 in each.
So, assuming continuing success, my next steps are
o Bring the iMac up to 640MB RAM by swapping it's 64MB DIMM with a 512MB DIMM in my G4 PM
o Start manual stress testing to evaluate the stability of Camino on dial-up
o Reduce the 42.4MB footprint of Camino 1.6.6. It's a universal binary so there should be some freeware to slim it down to just the PPC version. Safari 1.3.2 has a 4.3MB footprint.
o Start looking for a higher capacity hard drive.
" . . I suspect you could probably find folks to donate a couple of 256MB DIMMS and a 40GB -120GB to your cause . ."
Thanks for your suggestions especially the portion above on 'donations'."
Major Breakthrough in Browser Stability
I switched browsers to Camino 1.6.6 from Safari 1.3.2 and I'm encouraged because the results constitute a major breakthrough with respect to browser stability while surfing. In her case, I prioritize stability significantly higher than speed as I know she understands and accepts that dial-up provides slow internet response. I surfed about 30 minutes using dial-up without Camino locking up. I'll need to manually "stress test" to ensure the stability holds up.
Following what I consider the breakthrough in stability your post and suggestion about RAM triggered me to compare RAM in my G4 PM, mentioned in my post of March 09, 2009 04:23PM, with that in the iMac. Bingo, System Profiler reported PC100-2225 in each.
So, assuming continuing success, my next steps are
o Bring the iMac up to 640MB RAM by swapping it's 64MB DIMM with a 512MB DIMM in my G4 PM
o Start manual stress testing to evaluate the stability of Camino on dial-up
o Reduce the 42.4MB footprint of Camino 1.6.6. It's a universal binary so there should be some freeware to slim it down to just the PPC version. Safari 1.3.2 has a 4.3MB footprint.
o Start looking for a higher capacity hard drive.