What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...
I would assume most Powerbook and iBook owners add RAM and maybe even turn off VM. OS9 has a fairly inefficient VM, so if you are running with in a low RAM situation, you may be hitting the disk a lot ...