PowerBook G4 LapTop

[nocilah]

Y0

I was recently given one of these i used Mac's back in the OS7.something days.

So yeah i am new to this. Unfortunately I would like to reinstall it but will only get OS 10.4 from a friend on Monday.

What i would like to know are there any appz you guys reccomend that i should get. Any suggestions ect.

Right now it is fyck ass slow, but i ran fsck in the terminal in the beggening. That helped.

Also how the fark do i stop spotlight from indexing. Slows things down :/

 

[bwana]

Also how the fark do i stop spotlight from indexing. Slows things down :/

I'd say let it index and get it over and done with - searching will be pointless with out it.

As for apps - depends on what you're going to do with it

EDIT - it's best to run fsck in single user mode - better still get, install, and run applejack. http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

 

[nocilah]

I'd say let it index and get it over and done with - searching will be pointless with out it.

As for apps - depends on what you're going to do with it

EDIT - it's best to run fsck in single user mode - better still get and run applejack.

well i generally do design work and have all those apps at work, but will probably use the mac more for presenting to clients ect.

yeah i let spotlight do it's thing and besides i do still want to reinstall the thing. Also needs a bit of a clean.

applejack? what are dat? EDIT:: nevermind - Found it on sourceforge thanks

but still pretty impressed. 17" screen roxors

 

[bwana]

well i generally do design work and have all those apps at work, but will probably use the mac more for presenting to clients ect.

yeah i let spotlight do it's thing and besides i do still want to reinstall the thing. Also needs a bit of a clean.

applejack? what are dat? EDIT:: nevermind - Found it on sourceforge thanks

but still pretty impressed. 17" screen roxors

You'll probably want office then most ppl do. Fortunately its actually nicer than the pc version. For presentations Keynote kicks powerpoint's butt.

17"- sounds like we've got the same machine.

 

[nocilah]

17"- sounds like we've got the same machine.

sweet machine

 

[bwana]

sweet machine

Go to say I'm still pretty happy with it. Handles everything I throw at it.