Powerbook performance
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- effort
Short of buying more RAM, does anyone have any tips for increasing performance/speed for powerbooks?
I've run mac janitor and deleted old pointless files and apps. What else can I do?
- Mimio0
Keep your harddisk optimized?!?
- effort0
what's the best way to do that?
- davey_g0
This keeps me running pretty damn smoothly: http://www.mkd.cc/sox/
- effort0
just installed and ran this. will need to use and abuse things for a bit to see how well it worked. thanks for the tip.
i noticed there was a pretty ominous message about clearing the system cache. i didn't really understand the message and so opted to not run that part of the program.
can anyone enlighten me? I'm running 10.3. am i in danger of whatever it was warning against?
thanks for the great tips.
- davey_g0
I just hit "Optimize" and run them all then restart...because cleaning the cache out just makes it more stable again.
This is from the help menu:
Clean System/Application Cache: Mac OS X uses a system-wide caching system to generally speed up system and application performance. This cache can become corrupted, however, and cause "flaky" behavior, such as the "beach-ball effect". Cleaning the cache will eliminate this, and allow applications and system processes to start fresh. Restarting your computer is highly recommended after cleaning cache.
- effort0
Yeah, I read that. And I only got that warning message first time I started the program.
I'm gonna do some googling to see what they mean by "serious data loss". Soudns scary!
- redrum000
Disk Warrior is a good optimizing program as well. Good luck.
- Carty0
bite the bullet and get more ram. its the single best way to increase performance.
you are already on a mac, you might as well go the whole way and use it to its optimum. max the ram... when i went from 512 to 1.25 gigs, i almost shit a brick.
you can repair permissions and optimize all you want... macs do this at every startup anyway.
ram it up.
- minimalista0
So I ran the MKD System optimizer on my Pbook. I think the performance is better. All my Macromedia apps needed the serial numbers again and wouldnt install because the prior versions of the apps werent on the computer. Has anyone else had this experience?