[G4] snow leopard

[Keith Whaley]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Keith Whaley wrote:
>> Eric Smith wrote:
>>> Richard Klein wrote:
>>>> Furthermore, when you hear that Snow Leopard takes up less hard drive
>>>> space and runs faster than Leopard, at least some of that is because
>>>> they trimmed the extra code to support PowerPC Macs.

>>> Some of the disk space saving is due to the removal of PPC code,
>>> but that is not the major factor. The greatest part of the space
>>> reclaimed came from optimizing localization files.

>> Aren't localization files those files necessary for using the Mac OS 
>> with languages other than English?

> That's right. Here's an article that explains it much better than I can:
> <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/27/solving_the_mystery_of_snow_leopards_shrinking_apps.html> 

Wow! Impressive site.

I just downloaded Monolingual and saved 1.23 GB of HD space.
Not impressive in terms of "freeing up space" but in fact, all thse 
meaningless language files loading had to take a toll somewhere...

I'll be keeping track as I go along.
Just DELETING all those files took nearly 6 minutes, as fast as my 2.0 Ghz 
processor chip could handle it, so how can it NOT make a difference...

Thanks,  keith