A “beater”?, “Ancient”?, “worth $50.?”
Now my wife applies all of those terms to me from time to time but not to the computer!
“Slower” to me is just that. A visible (but not measured) slowdown in response time to basic functions (not internet download time). I work with photos a lot and that’s probably 90% of what’s saved on the hard drive.
I ran the Crucial.com scan mentioned above and it said that I have 1 512MB DDR PC2100 installed and recommended one more. It notes that “each memory slot can hold DDR PC2700, DDR PC3200 with a maximum of 512MB per slot”.
I will run disk defrag and report back.
Amazing the resources available at the Dope!