Internet access a nightmare - time to upgrade?

Hello-- Over the last few months, my Mac laptop (2005 OS X, 10.4, 512 MB) has become increasingly slow  at getting Safari up, loading pages, web navigation, etc. Basically, anything you might do online takes a million years, and often Safari will just shut itself down. No different with Firefox. I have high-speed wirelss access at home, and eveyone else in the house is zipping along, no problems. This started a few months ago and seems to be getting a little worse as time wears on. Sleep function also not working well, and I have trouble toggling back and forth between applications, Internet, etc. (For example, very slow and difficult to go from Word to Internet, Word to mail, mail to Internet, etc.)
Is my Mac simply too old or weak, or is it some other problem?  I'm afraid that if I bring it in to Apple they will automatically advise me to upgrade or buy a new machine. I know that day is coming, but I'd like to get a bit more use out of what I have, if possible.
Thanks!

indicates that I currently have 256 MB.
You have the minimum amount of RAM memory to run tiger.  You said that you had 512.  Did some of the memory go bad?  Could be why your machine slowed down.  Run only one application at a time.
You should get more memory. Make sure I have the correct model.  $16 per  gig.  Their giving it away.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/Pro/DDR2/
You need several gigs free on your harddrive to save temperary files used by Mac OS.
Here is how to find out:
clear all windows off the desktop.  Find harddrive icon. 
click once
do a get info by pressing command + i
My harddrive name is Macintosh-HD.   Notice i have 8.14 gig free.
Look at what is happening with your Mac when you run Activity Monitor.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor
Click on the CPU tab on the lower half of the window to see how much time you are using and if any applications are hogging the CPU.
You can gain some understanding of Activity Monitor by  looking at it every once in a while.  Look at the small graph.
Here is how I have my cpu display set up:
Do you need more cpu memory.
Click on System Memory to get statistics on memory usage.  You should have some free memory.
The number to look at is page outs.
Mine is 13397. This means that some of my programs and data had to be written to disk because cpu memory filled up for a time.  It means my programs ran a little slower than they could have.  I could run fewer programs, deal with the slowness, or buy more memory. I'd say you want at least 512meg of memory for 10.4.
If the entry for entry for Page ins/outs is:
Page ins/outs: 29163/0
Notice I have 0 pageouts which says that I am not using my harddrive for extra memory space.  Thus, I have enough memory.
Activity Monitor has a neat feature where it can display a dynamic dock icon.  In Activity Monitor View > Dock icon > Show cpu history.
"Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor :"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107918
Managing Memory
See   Kappy
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8025223#8025223
Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space
http://thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html

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