On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Arturo Pérez wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 05:38 PM, James Knight wrote: > > > So, if you move some of that I/O activity off the internal eIDE then > you shouldn't see > that beachball so much. > BTW, the easiest cheapest way to accomplish this is to launch all the apps you think you might be needing BEFORE you start ripping. OSX won't mind at all.