I NEED MAC HELP

JRullo

JRullo

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hey i bought a refurbished mac ibook g4, and i am having some problems, i cant play games and i can kind of play gnarshmallow but it is super slow like it takes a good 5 mins to get down the hill, and its all choppy, i also cant watch vids on youtube or here on NS. any help would be greatly appreciated, and +k for all helpful responses. thanks a lot
 
probably the best thing to do would be to take it to a specialist, but...

if there is alot of extra stuff on it try going through and deleting unnecessary programs and shit

 
Back up all your shit.
Repair all the permission
Do a clean install
Update to new version of the OS

 
try to get your hands on a laptop with whatever OS that Microsoft ran back then and see if it actually works.

i hate comments like these
 
This,

except he won't be able to update to leopard since it's intel based, and the ibook g4 isn't if my memory serves me right.
 
Yeah you're right. I just assumed that everyone who's owned a mac within the past three years or so had an intel based mac.

 
how recent is your last software update, i would do that first, since the compy is old it may just need some updating
 
Hardly...my Lenovo kicks the shit out of a Mac specwise, and I dual boot Windows 7 and Kubuntu, which is way better then running a mac OS.
 
Flash performance on a G4 is horrible slow. It runs the PPC architecture, an essentially dead technology. Search Google with the link below and PM Bangor. He runs 2 G4s with Flash and will be a great resource for tuning your Mac.

G4 flash performance
http://www.google.com/search?q=g4+flash+performance
 
your right..my 64bit version of Windows 7 sucks...so does my Lenovo....I wish I had a spent more money on a computer that just "looks better" when I am not using it.
 
You can say that about other retards, but please don't classify me in that group of shit head.
 
No, even Macs. I, for some reason, have had HORRID luck with Macs and PCs. All the iMacs I used at school, broke. The two Macbooks I bought used just like almost blew up on me. PCs, no matter what, they decide to die as well.
 
never did...just saying.

I know that you use your's for editing which is totally fine because there are easier to get video codecs and it USED to be easier to run more than 4GB of RAM on any Mac...

I would probably never consider buying a mac for any other reason though. But now that Windows has a more stable 64bit operating system, many of which have quad core i7 processors (that is 4 THREADED processors) and 12GB RAM...for LESS than most MAC's sell for... I will stay with PC
 
Maybe you just don't know how to use a computer... It is nearly impossible to make a computer completely die on you unless it is hardware related. As long as the hardware is fine, you can always fix it.
 
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