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- ilgaz, on 12/11/2008, -4/+60Are they nuts? Or people listening to Computerworld?
Except steps 8 and 10, there is no point doing these things and they will create frustration in future.
It is NOT windows, it is NOT running FAT or NTFS, million files or 200.000 files does not make any difference, your system doesn't really care if an application is universal or intel/ppc native, it doesn't try to load it... Especially Leopard has Sandbox/App signing technology and it is the last thing to mess with binary files unless you are completely desperate (read: no money to buy new HD)
3D effects animation? They are done on GPU hardware which exists to do these things. Apple disables if it can't do it anyway. iLife media libs? We deal with 40-50 or even 200 GB quicktime files, never seen anything effect system performance by just being there.
Windows focused mags should keep giving "windows' tips to WINDOWS USERS. - MacBookForMe, on 12/10/2008, -1/+49in short...
1. Get rid of the languages you don't speak
2. Cut out the non-native code
3. Trim down iLife media libraries
4. Clean out logs
5. Delete unused applications and tools
6. Reduce log-in items
7. Do without the 3-D effects and animation
8. Remove the fonts you don't use
9. Find and remove large files and folders
10. Increase RAM - TheWindBlows, on 12/11/2008, -1/+21It's better just to wait. There will be optimizations in Snow Leopard you simply can't do this way.
- judicar, on 12/11/2008, -3/+2111. Never get Mac advice from a PC-oriented website.
- TheCheeks, on 12/11/2008, -1/+16Just remember, there is no copy protection on install discs :)
- bamatime, on 12/11/2008, -1/+1510.x = full upgrades = pay
10.x.x = patches = free - cardyology, on 12/11/2008, -6/+20computerworld is a PC site. Not an OSX site.
Remove the PPC part of binaries? What?
Remove ilife binaries??? WTF???
***** this list, it sucks. - ilgaz, on 12/11/2008, -2/+13The performance difference of Snow Leopard will come from pure 64bit, massive changes of memory subsystem, optimised applications, garbage collection enhancements, optimised Cocoa, Quicktime X and its frameworks. If we were lucky to get its G5 version, it would have massive speed enhancement on dual and quad ones since it makes real easy to develop/enable SMP/multi core executables, libraries.
Apple or some newbie blogs gave wrong impression about where the real speed will come from. Snow Leopard won't have speed difference between 90 languages or single language. Perhaps Apple will make it easier not to install unwanted languages, that is all.
They keep thinking Windows way, that is the reason. Switchers can't get rid of "What if that library stays there" way of thinking like Windows dll hell. Just by "being there" it doesn't mean anything to OS X. You can have up to 10 processor native executables in single binary, Finder or OS X will ALWAYS pick the one which suits your CPU and ignore others. - jordan314, on 12/11/2008, -0/+11So 7 out of 10 of those only free up hard drive space, which is a no brainer, and one of those has nothing to do with leopard but involves upgrading your machine. What a great article!
- bamatime, on 12/11/2008, -7/+174. Realize your life isn't worth living
5. Kill yourself - pitlord, on 12/11/2008, -5/+15That's lame, how would I run Photoshop, Final Cut, After Effects and all the other apps I use to make a living? >.>
Oh, I see, you're some geek who plays with electronics in his mom's basement, aren't you? Very well, carry on then.
^^ - ilgaz, on 12/11/2008, -0/+10Correction: Step 8 says "Remove fonts you don't use" , no "Deactivate" them, don't remove. It is only valid for DTP/Graphics pros who uses thousands of high end fonts. OS X is not that dumb to be slowed down with 50-100 font families.
- gabbagabba, on 12/11/2008, -0/+10Burried for placing an ad before you could actually see the article
- Scott2, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9Watch out when removing languages from Office - that'll break the ability to do updates.
- Churnd, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9THANK YOU! My thoughts exactly! Even though many people are switching to OS X, we'll still be suffering the wrath Windows hath wrought for a long time. It's this reason alone I stopped trying to push OS X onto people. If they're not ready to make the switch, it's going to hurt them and the OS X reputation.
- ultraseamus, on 12/11/2008, -2/+11Waiting for someone to suggest your mom is cheaper and faster? Sorry but I am above that kind of cheap shot (but your mom sure isn't). Or just for someone to bash Windows? In which case, meh.
- dajuggernaut, on 12/11/2008, -1/+8Mom... Can I feed the trolls just this one time? pretty please....
No?
But mooooommmmm.... - philojustin, on 12/11/2008, -0/+7almost all this stuff just (except for the obvious add more memory and the marginally efficient 3d fix) slims down the os/app's footprints, but has little to do with speed.
- theantidote, on 12/11/2008, -2/+9It's a different upgrade schedule than XP/Vista. Windows upgrades come out every 5 years and they charge you $300+ for them. Mac upgrades come out every 2 years and they charge you $130 for them. In the long run it comes out about the same.
- peestandingup, on 12/11/2008, -2/+9You forgot the part where you waste a thousand hours trying to get the ***** thing to run correctly on your hardware.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook - VitriolAndAngst, on 12/11/2008, -0/+6I'm going to pay for Snow Leopard if they ask money for it, and download it for free if they don't.
What is silly, is that people are complaining that JUST PERFORMANCE and STABILITY should be free -- while ad-hoc features are what add value.
Apple is going to have just as many new features in Snow Leopard -- they will just come on as updates after they are ready. It's much more important to have a sound and well architected foundation, than the "get 1000 and 1 NEW features" approach by marketing, that tries to shovel everything out the door on some magical date, not influenced by actual needs of development.
Snow Leopard is going to be what Leopard should have been. I will happily pay for rock solid performance, and get the super cool nifty new feature for free, rather than the other way around and just HOPING things don't break. - revsd5, on 12/11/2008, -0/+6Stay away from this.
- treed, on 12/11/2008, -0/+6Some people are anticipating that Snow Leopard will be free for Leopard users, the same way that 10.1 was free for 10.0 users. (Both being primarily a clean-up release.)
- Churnd, on 12/11/2008, -2/+8Ah, but you assume the Mac upgrade is equivalent to the Windows upgrade. Not the case at all. :)
- falafelkiosken, on 12/11/2008, -0/+5performance is more than specs, like getting an os that isn't totally bloated
- MrSkills, on 12/11/2008, -2/+7Yes, the mac upgrade is worthwhile :-)
Damn, I couldn't resist biting... - billyvnilly, on 12/11/2008, -1/+6I really hate computerworld... the articles are so ***** long, often useless, and they are just not worth the read.
- a3dman, on 12/11/2008, -0/+5me I like OS 10.3 fast on G3 :P
- SeaSideClown, on 12/11/2008, -0/+5I think i'll wait for snow leopard. Its only a few months away after all.
- edrodgers731, on 12/11/2008, -2/+7Run Photoshop.
- ilgaz, on 12/11/2008, -1/+5Lets ask Digg admin if they cleanup Digg site every once in a while to gain up performance?
No such thing on Unix. The cleaning up stuff are for Windows PCs, they have DLL hell etc.
OS X doesn't really care. It never cared back in MacOS days too. - mingistech, on 12/11/2008, -0/+4Removing language packs breaks Adobe Acrobat Professional and makes it so Adobe Illustrator won't accept updates anymore.
Language removal will also prohibit updates to MS Office.
Always set monolingual to ignore Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, and MS Office. - a3dman, on 12/11/2008, -0/+4agreed.
- ilgaz, on 12/11/2008, -0/+4Adobe Professional apps too. Also both MS and Adobe will accept no responsibility for such breakage. You may end up downloading pirate copy of your own paid app if you lost DVD etc.
This tip is a waiting disaster to happen, hope people won't take computerworld (!) tips serious. It really looks like they have never, ever used Mac. All DTP people knows what happens to Adobe software if one is mad to remove languages. - baralo, on 12/11/2008, -0/+4I'll take eight specs please.
- MacParrot, on 12/11/2008, -1/+4troll is droll
- TheStooge1, on 12/11/2008, -3/+6He's the numbnuts? I thought everyone knew that by saying 'PC', it is generally accepted that it is a Windows box you are referring to... ya numbnuts!
These types of "chores" are needed on Windows boxes, but not on Macs... which is why he pointed out that Computerworld (which IS primarily a PC...err Windows site for you) did not know what they were talking about. - pitlord, on 12/11/2008, -6/+9You get updates for free. Snow Leopard is a whole new version like going from XP to Vista (without all the suck).
>.> - BreatheRhetoric, on 12/12/2008, -0/+3I'm sure TheCheeks was hinting towards something else.
- xsecretfiles, on 12/11/2008, -4/+7I'm new to to the Mac world, but is the next version of OSX a free update? or is it a whole new OS that we need to pay for?
I could probably google this, but I always forget... - ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -6/+94. Waste time trying to do what OSX already does perfectly.
- dajuggernaut, on 12/11/2008, -0/+3i read your comment and the first thing that came to mind was:
"if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college"
please go troll elsewhere - VitriolAndAngst, on 12/11/2008, -1/+4Your point is EXTREMELY valid.
All this is common wisdom from a windows PC perspective.
The Mac is a self-optimizing UNIX box. Other than corrupt fonts, bad network connections -- including bad USB and firewire devices, you can install RAM. The computer doesn't really get hurt with lots of apps -- just room on the hard drive.
You might shave some time on load times by removing language libraries. Apple is going to start compressing and removing legacy code with Snow Leopard -- so just wait.
If you don't plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard, then maybe try and tweak a few things in these suggestions. But if you end up making your box flaky -- what have you gained? Stability is #1. - soopafly, on 12/11/2008, -2/+56. Realize that there isn't Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects on XUbuntu
7. Reinstall OSX - robogobo, on 12/11/2008, -0/+3Actually, all of these tips have some merit, depending on what specific actions you're performing. The only thing I can't justify if eliminating log-in items, since those are the things a user specifically puts there to make start up more efficient (albeit longer) for them. And number 9 isn't so helpful if those files are also needed. I mean, maybe it should suggest in general just eliminating unused files, large or not.
And I'm not sure why people have to slam Computerworld as being a "PC" magazine. Your Mac is a computer and they have plenty of feature articles on the Mac OS. - falafelkiosken, on 12/11/2008, -0/+3Adobe hasn't cared about Mac OS for a very long time
- edrodgers731, on 12/11/2008, -0/+3I have no clue why anyone would have used MacOS for anything before OSX, but I prefer OSX over Windows because it's a UNIX-like system. On the outside it's more streamlined, and on the inside it's more flexible. It's reliable, fast, and things like color management and backups are much easier to manage. Photoshop and Lightroom run flawlessly, upgrade flawlessly, and running multiple versions is simple. After a while, I even prefer the lack of a "mother window" for Photoshop. I am a Wedding Photographer and feel that OSX is much better at handling memory issues, storage issues, and it's more consistent.
Some people use it because it's "cooler". It's "creative". I use it because it is a professional grade OS, and not just a pile of legacy crap all band-aided together.
Of course in my day job I'm a Linux admin, so I'm a bit biased.
When I "upgraded" from XP to Vista, I forgot to buy all new hardware and everything slowed down quite a bit. Not that my system was that old... A $3500 system I built just a year earlier. I never really looked back, and I run Windows in a window for the stuff my Wife needs to do for her job. - designerutah, on 12/11/2008, -0/+3alanr: If you're so in love with Ubuntu, and think Macs are such crap, why bother posting here... unless you're desperate for an internet fight? Waste of time, but have fun with it. You won't get anyone to switch, and come off sounding... well, like a troll.
- MacParrot, on 12/11/2008, -0/+2I use XP all day at work, occasionally run Vista HP through Bootcamp, and have been a Mac user for over 20 years. In all honesty, there's really not much difference between running apps on either Windows or the Mac. If you're more productive on one or the other, go with that. I prefer Macs for ease of use outside the apps that both can run. Set-up for new hardware is easier (IMO AND assuming that whatever you're installing works on both not always a given on the Mac side) and generally the OS stays out of my way as compared to Windows (especially Vista).
Your mileage may vary - MacParrot, on 12/11/2008, -0/+2Actually alanr19 it's about trimming OS X to make it run better. Try to keep up
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