Oh the pain

I was on a location job today and it was just so painful using my powerbook rather than my G5. I have a 1.67ghz powerbook with 1.5gb RAM- that's as fast as they come but it just doesn't cut it. It takes about 15 minutes to build previews from a full 2gb card, which is a bit hard to explain to the art director looking over your shoulder.
Are there any tricks I don't know for speeding this up? Build previews while downloading on or off doesn't seem to make any difference because the download portion of the process doesn't take that long anyhow, but crunching the previews takes forever.
When I can get a nice dual core intel powerbook I will be a happy camper indeed, the G4 action ain't cuttin it.
Are there any tricks I don't know for speeding this up? Build previews while downloading on or off doesn't seem to make any difference because the download portion of the process doesn't take that long anyhow, but crunching the previews takes forever.
When I can get a nice dual core intel powerbook I will be a happy camper indeed, the G4 action ain't cuttin it.