Freezes or skips streaming or non streaming video

I have a powerbook g4 12" 867 ppc 800 somethin ram 3/4 gb and whenever I try to play videos anywhere online it freezes the whole mac, or just simply skips as if its a very slow fps. I have never tried this before on this mac but I wanted to browse a bit of video and it started to occur. There are little to no programs running in the background, ive reset the nvram and all setting to default in openb firmware.
Its a general question really, does this powerbook have hardware capability to play a streaming video? If so, why isn't mine? Do I need an update(checked don't need one) do I really need to upgrade hardware on a machine that was $1799 6 years ago! Maybe I can have this answered for the world once and for all, is there a control panel for graphic settings? If not why isn't there one?
Apple support don't leave this answer unresolved for 5 years like I've seen here before for these simple video questions.
Last question, why does my powerbook suck at everything so much? I at least want to play some video, that's all this hunk of tin is good for.
I new I shouldve bought a pc... They really are SOOOOO much better and cheaper than macs.
Just answer my questions please.

newyorksabre wrote:
do I really need to upgrade hardware on a machine that was $1799 6 years ago!
I think if you had bought a cheaper PC 6 years ago you still would have the same problem. The problem is that the machine is over half a decade old! That's an eternity in computer time.
Today's video codecs are designed for a dual-core CPU running well over 1GHz. The G4 only has one core running at less that, so it has significantly less power.
If you think a PC would have been better, think about this. My PowerBook G4, same age but a little faster (1.25GHz), can run the latest Mac operating system: 10.5 Leopard. If you bought a PC laptop 6 years ago, any PC laptop, could it run today's Windows operating system, Vista? Probably not! When Vista came out, PC users were angry because relatively new PCs would need to be upgraded to run Vista well. But I can install the latest Mac OS X on my 6-year-old laptop and it runs great. I think I got the better deal by buying a Mac.

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