Low End Mac Suggestions for Optimizing Performance

Ed Eubanks over at Low End Mac has a nice set of suggestions for optimizing performance on your Mac. The main upshot of the article is to turn off or delete things you don't need (e.g. Universal Access, seldom used System Preferences, extra localization languages, etc.) in order to salvage as much RAM and hard drive space as possible, but he has a variety of good suggestions. Their motto over there is "How much Mac do you need?", but even if you've got an Intel beast I've found that you pretty much never have enough system resources, so these are good tips for everyone. Check it out over at Low End Mac.

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Ed Eubanks over at Low End Mac has a nice set of suggestions for optimizing performance on your Mac. The main upshot of the article is to...

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Josh

Hi,

I have actually been having some problems lately. My Mac is taking much longer to startup, and programs take longer to launch. I transfered all my stuff (using the migration assistant) from my old Powerbook to my iMac G5 iSight. Is there any way that is the cause of the sluggishness? Anyway I can speed it up? The list is nice but I don't think it will help me.

March 13 2007 at 1:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wrench

Speaking of low end macs, I just wasted about 2 hours here.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com

March 13 2007 at 8:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mr Lizard

Apple's own word on fragmenting, or 'disk optimising' as they like to call it:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

March 13 2007 at 4:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yakov Chodosh

Yeah, you have to reinstall the OS every other week just like windows

March 13 2007 at 12:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

@ eric

hahahahaha.... thats funny man. Thanks for the laugh. I switched a while ago and can honestly say that there is no maintenance on macs to speak of compared to the ungodly amount of maintenance you need to be prepared to do on a windows box. (I dont know about vista, but I know this is true for XP and prior)

March 12 2007 at 11:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

eric

Ok... so now we all knew Macintosh needs maintanence as well... and you need to digggg around for solutions.

obtw Please don't laugh at Windows user that "defrag" their harddrives anymore. Mac OS X does not defrag the file system automatically, it just tolerate the poorer performance.

Go pay for iDefrag man!

March 12 2007 at 10:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply