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AND ONE MORE THING
Authored by: marianco on Dec 24, '02 02:46:28PM

I just did this:

• DEFRAGMENT your hard drive. The only reason I purchased Norton Utilities is to use it's superb Speed Disk utility. Unfortunately, it doesn't run on Mac OS X. You have to either boot your Mac off a separate partition or hard drive with Mac OS 9 or boot off Norton CD which has Mac OS 9.2.1 built in. Mac OS X uses tons of files - after all, it is Unix. Virtual memory in Mac OS X utilizes many small files instead of one large file as in Mac OS 9.2.1. Thus, loading from the hard drive is faster if the files are more organized and defragmented. Speed Disk allows you to organize where the files are on the hard drive depending on the reason you will use the computer.

RBM



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