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A simple but effective Mac speed-up tip
I'm surprised this obvious lack of performance under normal use doesn't offend the bleeding jeebus out of anyone else. I used to keep just about everything I used on a daily or semi-daily basis on the desktop, because it's the most convenient spot. I felt the pain especially since I have a PowerBook, and I almost don't think any developers at Apple use PowerBooks except to make sure their software runs. I think that will be the case even more now that they can use quad-G5s and hyperthreaded dual Intel machines. This is the real cost of the gap in performance between the desktop macs and the portables -- the software is written on and for the desktops.
If I hadn't stumbled on a footnote to a post at drunkenblog, I never would have gone down that route. I have probably lost Apple at least fifty sales when various clients saw my PowerBook, said they were planning on buying one, and then cringed in horror when I exploded out of my seat to tell them now slow they are, and that it's a horrible mistake to buy one. I've also been offended at how mdimport seems to get hung up very easily on .DS_Store files, but I haven't dug into that issue, since those files are so easy and undamaging to remove.
A simple but effective Mac speed-up tip
I completely agree. Why would Apple design a feature that convenient to be so performance crippling.
A simple but effective Mac speed-up tip
I've got a 3-year-old 15" Powerbook at work and a brand-new one at home. I have no performance problems. I have only aliases to two folders and whatever I happen to be working on at the time on my desktop. |
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