[Ti] Better Battery Power was [Anyone loaded 10.2.5 yet? Any issues?]

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According to Michael Bigley:

>>>Jag's start up time is slower that the oft-complained about 
>>>startup times of early OS7 and OS8.
>>
>>Approximately 1 minute 20 seconds on my 667. What's yours do?
>
>Jag.5 is definitely faster in start up... about the same as you, 
>1:30 to login panel... however add 3 minutes from login to the end 
>of spinning beachball cursor and Finder has "found" itself... so I 
>have a 4:30 startup time total.  I have had the extremely slow login 
>since the first Jag upgrade...

Hello Michael,

There might, i hope, be reasonable, safe, means to deal with that 
slow startup. I don't know if you have FileBuddy, or TinkerTool, or 
are averse to booting into 9 and using Sherlock with visibility set 
to "All", but, trashing all copies of the file called 
.GlobalPreferences.plist is a good place to start. It is amazing how 
few prefs are affected, despite the 'global' moniker. Don't forget 
the 'dot' before 'global'.

There are copies in Library/Preferences, and  ~/Library/Preferences.

Also, under the "Network" pane in Sys Prefs, the box marked 'show' 
should only contain the network connect port configuration one is 
actually using. in my case i use dsl, so under 'Show' I see "Built-in 
Ethernet' and if i click it, and look at 'Network Port 
Configurations' i see that only 'Built-in Ethernet' has a check mark. 
If i used FaxStf or something requiring a dialup, then the second 
item, under Built-in Ethernet, would be 'Internal modem' with a check.

One can delete the unused port configs without trouble, as if an 
IrDA, etc, is added later, there's a 'Revert' box. On startup, the 
Mac polls all the checked ports, so superfluous port configs=waste of 
time and CPU cycles. And, last but not least, many apps work 
perfectly well without their 'added-in' items that show up in 'Login 
Items', also in Sys Prefs.

Also, and i cannot stress enough, even a 'light', or 'moderate'-rated 
amount of disk fragmentation will slow down boot times. Always. no 
exceptions. My restarts and 'cold' boots are, on average, 20 to 25% 
faster after defragging. For a file system, OSX, that sports a 'myth' 
that fragmentation 'isn't an issue', I have to wonder, based on 
consistent, real-world results.

You probably already knew all this, but there's always our beloved 
'lurkers' out there  :=)

~flipper