[X Newbies] OSX Trim The Fat

[Nigel Williamson]

At 20:35 -0900 on 12/12/02, Miles wrote:

>  Do NOT delete parts of the OS to make it go faster. That was something that
>worked on earlier versions. However, that is no longer the case. There are
>other things that you can do, though. For one thing, go over macosxhints.com
>they had a list of how to tweak things so that less of the processor is tied
>up dealing with Aqua. Things like dealing with antialiasing and whatnot.
>   I have had my system folder on an external drive before, but didn't seem
>to notice anything faster. If anything I think that it was a little slower.
>   Has your machine been able to run the cron clean up tasks that are set to
>work at 0315? I have seen others make the observation that their machine was
>noticeably slower when the maintenance scripts weren't able to run. I think
>that I would try that first. Miles

I generally run OS 9 at work and OS X at home... so yeah, I'm running 
X in the wee hours of the morning thus letting it do it's scripty 
magical bits.

I would have thought that with a faster HD with more available space 
OSX would speed up a fair degree. Perhpas I'm wrong in this 
assumption...  I think I'm going to try it out regardless. Will post 
the results.

I'll check out macosxhints now. Cheers for that.

Anyone else have any ideas, comments etc?

Nigel

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Nigel Williamson
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