Logic LE on a PBG4 867Mhz

How well will it run on the older PowerBook G4 12" 867MHz - 640MB RAM?

I use Logic Express on my powerbook G4 867Mhz. It runs great. You cannot use very many ram or CPU intensive plugins, but works well overall. Plays the Logic Express demo song (from the install dVd) back just fine without using much CPU.

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    At the end of the day, it is a good idea to have your files organized with Project Manager. It improved Logic's performance tremendously over here.
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    My daughter has a Powerbook 1.5G aluminum 12" that has been running slow for a year or so, she got it new in 2005. The computer has had beach balls and general slowness. yesterday she took it to a genius bar and was told it was definitely slower than it should be, and that the cause was likely softwear or impending hard drive failure. My daughter said recently the computer made a repetive clicking noise, only one time; she had reported this to me about a week ago.
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    Thanks for your reply. That's helpful to hear that the symptoms the computer was sent in for are not explained by logic board damage. The genius bar person didn't characterize it as a logic board related problem; she said it was likely the hard drive failing or need to be reformatted. whatever the cause of corrosion of the logic board, why should that have anything to do with a problem not related to the logic board?
    I think she should contact customer relations or a repair supervisor about that, or an AppleCare rep. I have the same kind of computer she has. I just read over the terms and conditions in the documentation that came with my AppleCare policy. It says "1(b) Limitations: Plan does not cover: (ii) Damage to the covered equipment caused by accident, abuse, neglect, misuse....extreme environment (including extreme temperatures or extreme humidity)...."
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    Also, if they look at her computer, they can see it hasn't been abused or misused--she's had it since fall of 05 and it doesn't have any dents or scratches--she has really cared for it. (i wish i could say the same about mine :-o )
    As for extreme humidity, i don't think so. They lived in San Diego--it gets hot in the summer but it's coastal Southern California--it's hardly extreme weather.
    If they want to insist that corrosion on the logic board voids the warranty on the hard drive (and that's not at all clear by the wording of the policy, as i'm reading it) it still remains that she denies ever spilling anything on it, and to look at it, you can see it's been well protected, so i think they have good reason to give her the benefit of the doubt. They say corrosion is absolute proof there was liquid spilled on it. I don't think that's reasonable. But if so, how do we know it wasn't spilled on before it was shipped to her? It's not like Apple never has any new computers with quality control problems.
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