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#1 2009-10-26 1:09 am
- smcracraft
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Cleaning and speedup
Recently I took some steps to speed up this
1 1/2 year-old MacBook:
- upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 from 10.5.8
- removed FileVault encryption/decryption
- reduced used space from 99% to 89%
- removed the BootCamp partition, decreasing 89% to 63%
The Snow Leopard is purring now, but being the type that I am,
I am looking for still more methods to pursue to clean this box up.
If you have further ideas, let me know.
Thanks,
Stuart
P.S. I know about the idea of upgrading to faster iron too but
want to hold back and see what I can get with non-monetary or
low-monetary methods.
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#2 2009-10-26 8:47 am
Re: Cleaning and speedup
Run a permissions repair / verify once a week? That's what I do. And restart once a day. Sometimes at work I end up leaving my Macbook on for a week at a time (in sleep mode / in use).
Cut down on firefox add-ons for faster browsing. I would say use Safari but I find it crashes on me and is missing some amazing features compared to Firefox.
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#3 2009-10-26 8:54 am
- pottymouth
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Re: Cleaning and speedup
The best upgrade money can buy is RAM. How much you got?
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#4 2009-10-26 3:32 pm
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Re: Cleaning and speedup
pottymouth wrote:
The best upgrade money can buy is RAM. How much you got?
Agreed--maximize the RAM if it is at all affordable.
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#5 2009-10-27 9:53 pm
- smcracraft
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Re: Cleaning and speedup
pottymouth wrote:
The best upgrade money can buy is RAM. How much you got?
4gb, so I'm maxed, at least for this MacBook.
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#6 2009-10-27 9:57 pm
- smcracraft
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Re: Cleaning and speedup
Beowulf wrote:
Run a permissions repair / verify once a week? That's what I do. And restart once a day. Sometimes at work I end up leaving my Macbook on for a week at a time (in sleep mode / in use).
Cut down on firefox add-ons for faster browsing. I would say use Safari but I find it crashes on me and is missing some amazing features compared to Firefox.
I use SuperDuper! and backup the entire drive 1x every 1-2 weeks and it
includes a permissions repair.
Restart once a day is pretty much the same... per day.
I do use Safari to try to be "Apple-like" and recently got through
the issue of pulling up multiple tabs at once.
Safari does lock up even on Snow Leopard...
Apple needs to do some work on Safari and make it a serious browser.
Maybe I should see if Google Chrome works on the Mac.
One of the Google guys nearby here said the software project to create
Chrome required each Google programmer checking code back in
to pass a QA/speed test to "do no harm".
--Stuart
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#7 2009-10-27 9:58 pm
- smcracraft
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Re: Cleaning and speedup
Thanks for the insights folks.
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