I recently got another imac, used from ebay for my business. This new computer is so horribly slow and I can't figure out why. OSX, 128 mg ram, 600 G3 processor. I am using DSL for internet. At home, I have a 350 processor imac with 64 ram and its got to be 15 to 20 times faster than this new one. I mean, this new computer is SLOW!!!! I can hardly function with it. It doesn't matter what program or how many programs I have open, it is so, so, SO slow. Lagging and printing problems... It takes me an incredibly long time just to bring up an already open document or program from the dock. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it a low memory problem? I just can't stand it anymore! I am not getting anything done. I take work home with me to do on my older computer because this one is so slow. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Trish

It could be a few things. First of all, 128 MB is barely enough to run OS X. Secondly, if it has anything under OS 10.3 (panther), forget it, it's not even worth trying to fix. OS 10.2 and below run EXTREMELY slow on G3s. The only OS X I could ever get to work on my 350MHz iMac is 10.3 -MikeG

Check to see if you have alot of free space on your disk, if not, you could have a print log or such that has grown so big that it bogs you down to a crawl. Have you tried booting from a restore disk and repair your permissions? This too will cause it to do strange things. As will a bad PRAM battery. Just some possibilities that I have run across in my repairs. Good Luck.

too little ram - I'm suprised the 64 runs osx at all. These machines did well under 8.6 or 9, but osx tends to be very slow. Most people who use osx have a minimum of 512 if not more schnub