Kevin writes:

I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s run­ning really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was look­ing on the inter­net and saw that “anacron” was sug­gested. Do you guys have any sug­ges­tions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any sug­ges­tions would be appre­ci­ated. thanks.

There’s two areas you can look at when try­ing to speed up a com­puter: hard­ware or soft­ware. If your Mac is run­ning Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or ear­lier, then some­thing like Anacron or Onyx (my per­sonal favorite) work really well for clean­ing up your machine. If your com­puter is run­ning Mac OS 10.5 or later, then you don’t really need these pro­grams (at least for the rea­sons that they’re usu­ally recommended).

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