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- spendogg0
I was told that as well after my HD took a crap. But I had no limwire on it.
- rasko40
I have heard this before, they claim that limewire leaves hidden paths over your machine that can cause it to slow down, but I have never noticed anything.
- PublikStar0
download torrents, it's better and risk-free!
- dijitaq0
did he explain why??
- uberdesigner0
does limewire screw with macs?
- PublikStar0
i've had limewire on my mac before, it slows my machine down, but some of my friends said it runs fine on theirs!
- hotroddy0
He noticed it on my laptop and said Limewire was bad because it puts a lot of stress on your drive from other people accessing it. I don't know if it's just Limewire or P2P in general.
- goldgrube0
all i know is limewire is ram eater
- Seff0
any word on aquisition?
- dijitaq0
i've never used limewire but i've had acquisitionx (a p2p app also, right?) but it didn't feel like my mac was slower when i had it on
- twoismtwoism0
bullshit!
- -scarabin-0
it's probably rough on the hd because it pulls information down from many threads and assembles them, making a lot of hd activity neccessary. if this is true, i don't see how using an ipod would be any better, since it's still a hard drive
- designerror0
all p2p software puts your mac into overtime.
t slows it down because it had to send out data to loads of different connections constantly.
- uberdesigner0
does it make them vulnerable?
- hotroddy0
I don't care so much whether it eats ram. Final Cut eats ram. Will it f**k my machine up?
- designerror0
in your case I hope so
- dijitaq0
maybe if you are sharing 100gb worth of materials and all files are being accessed all at once it would be stressful.
what's the difference if you were on a local network, say at the office, and your work mates are accessing your files??
or if you were rendering movies. wouldn't that be stressful too??
- Rand0
what if you don't share?
- designerror0
my last comment was fot uberD btw
- designerror0
p2p software sucks the speed and ram out of your computer, so set it to run when you sleep and shut it down when working.