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Not scientific, but...
... maybe it does change things. I am a bit dubious, though. If anything, it would at least have the same effect as defragmenting your hard disk. Since OS X uses big (80 MB) swap files, fragmentation will slow down most operations, if the swap files cannot be in contiguous blocks. But other than that, a clean install would remove some cache files that might be slowing things up...
Not scientific, but...
I agree. The defragmentation after reinstall was probably just a small contributer to the speed increase -- and that clean caches, etc. may have had more to do with it.
But did you partition your drive again, I wonder. You mention that you had originally but what about now? PS, Perhaps the 10.2.2 update had the modem fix you're looking for?
Not scientific, but...
Don't forget a completely clean hard disk dir structure as well. Whatever the exact reasons, as a support tech and avid gamer, I know well that a wipe of a machine always helps performance, sometimes shockingly. Especially on PCs :) |
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