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Dr. Mac's OS X Tip-of-the-Day
Dr. Mac's quick and dirty OS X speed tips.
By BOB LEVITUS
I get a lot of mail asking why OS X is so slow, or how to speed it up.
Here's a quick and dirty list of things that I've found can make OS X feel
faster (or even make it run faster):
1. Use Thousands of colors (instead of Millions). Use the Displays
preference pane or the Displays system menu.
2. Reduce the resolution of your display (not as useful for flat-panels but
if you have a CRT monitor, give it a shot). Use the Displays preference pane
or the Displays system menu.
3. Use the Scale or Suck minimization instead of the CPU-cycle-sucking
Genie. Use the Dock preference pane or TinkerTool
(http://www.bresink.de/osx/).
4. Kill those beautiful-but-CPU-thrashing drop shadows with ShadowKiller
(http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller/).
5. Set the Mouse preference to its fastest setting in the Mouse preference
pane.
6. Use font smoothing sparingly. Set it to 12 points and under. Use the
General preference pane for this, or use TinkerTool
(http://www.bresink.de/osx/) to turn smoothing off completely.
7. If you use Classic, turn off all unneeded extensions and control panels
using Extensions Manager.
And that's that.
To discuss this tip (or anything you like) in Dr. Mac's OSXFAQ Forum, click
here:
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1709&forum=100&0
Bob LeVitus is a leading authority on Mac OS and the author of 38 books,
including Mac OS X For Dummies and The Little iTunes Book.
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