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10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
Geeesh - I don't mean to be overly critical about this, but I have three world clocks running all the time with their second hands operative. They take precious little cpu time and with the amount of white space on my 2x 2.5 GHz system it's of no significant consequence. Maybe this is more of a problem with systems with limited CPU resource but it sure isn't with the latest crop of Apple Macs IMO.
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
Yes, I imagine it isn't a problem with the second fastest Mac made. I hate to tell you, the VAST majority of people are still on G4's (and even G3's!), not a dual processor 2.5Ghz G5...
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
Oh pls - don't get so defensive. I was being constructive for heavens sake. I still maintain this needs qunatifying before people make the leap of faith. It's kinda like everybody rushing out to configure swap space on a separate partition or separate disk - what a waste of time.
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
My mac is a laptop, and one thing I hate, is when the CPU is ramped up for no good reason, and my noisy fan spins up. I don't use the world clock widget very often, so I probably won't make this change.
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
Oh - and in case you hadn't realized the World clock widget will only comsume CPU time when it's displaying and not while it's Docked. So if one only infrequently unDocks the Dashboard there's little reason to remove the second hand.
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
I also wanted to reduce cpu usage of this clock, since I'm running two or three of them on the desktop rather than in Dashboard. But I found I didn't need to switch off seconds altogether - I just removed the 'sproing' animation effect - which is cool and neat, but unnecessary. Before edits, the World Clock used 10% CPU; with edits, but still with seconds and a digital clock, I've got it down to 1.8%. (But the main modification I made was to convert to 24 hour analog operation. More here. :-) The only problem is wondering what changes Apple make to the original when they issue a new version...
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
Hey Pete,
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
From my original hint:
10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage
obviously, yes, i know the post i am replying to is almost 2 years old, but i had the same question, so this might help someone. |
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