[geeks] OSX optimizations

[Kevin]

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I'm planning on taking another look at it this weekend.  Maybe
trying to shutdown unneeded daemons or just go back and do a
custom install.  That's the best way to learn it i suppose.  I
had assumed that a decent amount of that eye candy crap could
be turned off but from what i have seen in my web searches,
most of it cannot.  I have never understood the concept of not
allowing people to disable features.  I can understand some
BS being turned on by default.  I can even understand
companies making it difficult to turn off.  But i can cannot
understand the concept of not giving people the option in the
end.

/KRM

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:52:34 -0500
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 05:57 AM, Kevin wrote:
> > I just set my mother up with OSX.  She is running a
> > dual G4 1.25, a gig of ram and all 320 SCSI hardware,
> > no ide drives except the DVD-R.  She says it is not
> > nearly as responsive as she expected.  You have to wait
> > a few seconds just to open up basic text files and
> > such.  Aside from the exception of installing it on her
> > new machine this weekend, I have never used OSX before.
> >  Are there any tips for optimizing the speed that i may
> > have missed?  Are there ways of turning off some of
> > that BS eye candy?  Are there a million services
> > running with a basic OSX install?  Any tips we could
> > get to speed this thing up would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> 
>    I don't have any specific suggestions, but I can
>    definitely say that 
> something is very wrong.  I played with a dual 800Mhz G4
> about a year ago and everything was pretty much *instant*.
> 
>           -Dave
> 
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