MacsSuck

November 06, 2010 at 7:17am

My friend who owns a Mac asked me to help her last night as her Mac was so slow . . . surely not? Macs are AWESOME, aren't they? So I went to her house and spent an hour trying to figure out how to find out the capacity of her hard drive to ensure it had 20% free. Did the wonderful Mac Help system tell me how? No. Look at the hard drive itself. No? Hmmm. I thought Macs were easy to use and intuitive? Guess the only way to find out is to Google it. Then I read this article and tried to figure out how to actually do half the things it suggested. Again, TOTALLY counter-intuitive. WHO ON EARTH said Macs were so easy to use?

And what a MESS. The Dock is a disgrace. So cluttered and so difficult to switch back and forth between windows. When you minimize a program, the Toolbar is still at the top and detached from the program itself. And programs have Palettes everywhere! A complete and utter mess! It's like trying to work in a messy house. Doesn't Apple know how to create a nice, clean GUI? And what's with Maximize? Not all programs fill the whole screen when 'Maximized'. Doesn't Apple know what 'Maximum' means?

And Safari kept opening different Windows, so had to figure out which Window had which web page open. The whole thing was a nightmare. If you offered me a brand-new $2,500 Mac or a $500 PC, I would take the PC any day. Neither my PC at work nor my PC at home is slow, so Mac users are deluding themselves when they cry that PCs are slow and Macs are fast. It's down to Processor, RAM, & Hard Disk Speed. Windows 7 is a dream. Oh, and what about Defragging the Mac. Doesn't need it? Then why when everything was closed on the Mac (which we finally found out had 25% free) was it so slow? This article suggested defragging, but wait: you have to PAY to do that. No free utility. Does the Mac have ANYTHING that the PC does? Apart from deluded Acolytes? FINALLY. I know FIVE people who have bought Macs recently, and EVERY SINGLE ONE regrets it and wishes they had just stuck to a PC! Hmmm . . but aren't Macs wonderful?

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November 02, 2010 at 2:26am

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mautzu

October 08, 2010 at 2:24am

it is a very good thing to have acces to a computer and to internaet but from time to time you have to make a

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October 06, 2010 at 8:52pm

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Jacob Tanur

July 28, 2010 at 9:06pm

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OscarParker

July 20, 2010 at 3:26am

Here you can find what you should do step by step when you want to get music from ipod to your mac, make sure the process, then you can transter what you want to your mac.

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July 20, 2010 at 3:22am

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April 04, 2010 at 4:36pm

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HarrisonLogan

March 25, 2010 at 11:58pm

Flip a coin they are basically the same, if you know the model number I Guess i would get the one with the higher number seeing that it will probably be newer.
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Earthy Warrior

March 22, 2010 at 12:10am

I'm pretty sure if you open the HDD icon it'll tell you how much space you have left.
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ManuelHuerta

August 23, 2009 at 11:12am

I checked the iDefrag "Readme file" that came with the demo version, and they say that you should do a BackUp of all your important files, just in case, so that does not give me much security using this software, so I have 2 questions: Is there another way to defragment my mac besides using iDefrag or is it secure using it?, and How often should I defrag my mac?

macosx

August 14, 2009 at 7:09am

While System Preferences is open, take a look at a few other things. Apple has generously included a number of very useful features as preferences. Some, however, may not be useful to you, such as Universal Access (which offers help for visually and hearing impaired users) or Bluetooth (which allows certain devices to be used wirelessly). If you don't use these features, verify that they are turned off. This will save you some valuable RAM and processor resources.
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kevkevallen

June 14, 2009 at 9:22pm

Rendering icons in the Stacks in your Dock hog more memory than you might think, especially if you have a ton of stacks, and a lot of files in those stacks. Even alias's can hog memory if you have enough of them. Remember, when it comes to memory, every Byte counts!

gskibum

May 22, 2009 at 6:47pm

About 75% nonsense this article is.I'm amused as to how he confuses storing documents on one's Desktop (prior to OS X) with the occasional need to rebuild the Desktop File. That was an idiotic myth that still won't die.Documents stored on the Desktop had nothing to do with the pair of invisible files known as the Desktop File. They were completely unrelated and there was ZERO performance hit by storing files on one's Desktop.I’ve heard this claim going back at least to the System 6 days, and it has always been nothing but complete nonsense. Time after time people would mistakingly associate the pair of invisible files known as “Desktop DB” and “Desktop DF” with the Desktop folder. The only thing in common with the two invisible files and the Desktop folder are their names! Every volume, whether an internal hard disk, external hard disk, Zip disk, Benoulli or Syquest or whatever had this pair of invisible files. The Mac OS would store information within these files about the association between any given application and the icons associated with and it and documents created with it. Desktop DB stood for Desktop BNDL. These files could become corrupt which is where the old “rebuild your Desktop” troubleshooting step came from,There was in no file system association. I would dismiss out of hand any and all advice coming from a supposed Mac expert that makes such a claim as storing files on the Desktop wastes resources any more than storing files in say, the user’s Documents folder. It is a demonstration of just how little they understand the way the Mac OS works.Nothing but fluff articles like this are why I don't subscribe to this magazine.

nemodomi@comcast.net

May 07, 2009 at 5:57pm

I'm stunned by the large number of typos in this article. Are you guys professional or what? Seriously, I'd be embarrassed to have this kind of non-quality on my Web site if I were you. BTW I'm available for meticulous editing and proofreading services at very reasonable rates if you're interested, though I imagine, by appearances, that you're NOT. Good luck.

dmckill

May 06, 2009 at 11:43am

Before you download Monolingual...PLEASE READ! I, as well as a few designers I work with, read this article and decided to try some of the space saving suggestions that we hadn't tried in the past. Upon downloading Monolingual and running the software, we found that we saved anywhere between 1GB and 3.5GB respectfully on our machines. The problems occurred after shutting down and restarting the next day. All of us had issues opening Adobe Acrobat (CS3 in Leopard) and one designer couldn't open ANY CS3 programs, while I, myself, couldn't open Microsoft Office. It was until we ran Monolingual that these issues/problems arose. We had to re-install the OS as well as the software to fix all the problems we ran into. If you're going to try this piece of software...BEWARE and definitely BACK-UP your data!!!!!

edwinblaw

May 05, 2009 at 7:35am

I, too, have had Leopard, updated to 10.5.6, since issue. I also have 'Cocktail' but never used it. As a result of this excellent article, I did check and found the last script run was last July.

I also thought if it tried to run and couldn't it would then run when awakened. Apparently not so. I just used 'Cocktail'  to set my 'run' to 1300 when the machine is usually awake but I am at lunch.

Thanks for the tip.  I am also a Maximum PC avid reader and I see a similartiy and THAT IS a compliment,

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garyedgar

May 01, 2009 at 11:23am

I know it's harmless fun - but is it possible for this magazine/website to write an article just once without trashing Windows? It's just lazy and frankly for people who aren't blindly fanatical - not in anyway helpful. Just a suggestion.

MacRob

April 29, 2009 at 12:07pm

I have had Leopard since the day it came out, and I have never had The scripts run unless the computer was on at the time they were scheduled. I usually shut down when I'm not using my Mac. I just checked my scripts, and the monthly hasn't been run since Feb 1, 2009. I'm going to wait until May to check again, then I'll do it myself if it doesn't take care of itself.OSX 10.5.6 on a MacPro.

obvioustroll

April 29, 2009 at 5:31am

There hasn't been a need to run the daily, weekly or monthly scripts by hand since 10.4. These jobs are now managed by anacron and periodic (10.4) or by launchd (10.5) - in either case, if the computer is sleeping or off when the time to run a job passes, it will just run the job the next time it's started.

homemaderobot

April 29, 2009 at 5:06am

Check out a program called Xupport. While this can be a paid application, you do have the option of running it for free (which gives you a delay in loading, but its worth it). The program helps with optimizing your system, clearing caches, running maintenance scripts, disabling 3D effects or changing the color of your dock, managing virtual RAM, etc.

I use it at work mostly, but I also run it on my macbook every once and a while. You can find it in Apple's Download section.