General video performance affected on Mac OSX 10.5 (PowerBook G4)

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Published on 2011-03-12T15:09:13Z Indexed on 2011/03/12 16:12 UTC
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Hi all,

I'm quite new to Mac and I just got a PowerBook G4 for free. I installed OSX 10.5 on it and for the first two weeks, everything was going kinda smooth even if this is similar to a P3. I'm not expecting awsome video performance but at least be able to watch some videos from Youtube.

Yesterday night, I installed Office 2008 for mac and this morning, even after a reboot, my computer is way much slower that I used to know. I watched a youtube video and the framerate was 1:1. I also noticed it on flash adds, it's way slower!

Is there anything that I can do to increase video performance, see what's the process list running and taking more GPU or CPU, what's taking more ram and stuff like that?!

What do you guys, Mac pros, would do on an old laptop with OSX 10.5

Thanks!

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