Comments on: Making your Mac lively again http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/09/making-your-mac-lively-again/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The Broken Link » When in doubt, TBL Apps list. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/09/making-your-mac-lively-again/comment-page-1/#comment-35865 The Broken Link » When in doubt, TBL Apps list. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:11:43 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=6945#comment-35865 [...] Making your Mac lively again [...] [...] Making your Mac lively again [...]

]]> By: Ned Batchelder http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/09/making-your-mac-lively-again/comment-page-1/#comment-35768 Ned Batchelder Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:09:48 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=6945#comment-35768 The lively.com page says it requires "Vista/XP" which I guess means Vista or XP. Better than requiring Vista, but still an odd move for Google. Why are they building a SecondLife clone anyway? Seems like they got distracted from their mission of "indexing all the world's information", and are now either onto "build one of everything on the internet", or "make as many places to put ads as possible". The lively.com page says it requires “Vista/XP” which I guess means Vista or XP. Better than requiring Vista, but still an odd move for Google. Why are they building a SecondLife clone anyway? Seems like they got distracted from their mission of “indexing all the world’s information”, and are now either onto “build one of everything on the internet”, or “make as many places to put ads as possible”.

]]> By: David Weinberger http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/09/making-your-mac-lively-again/comment-page-1/#comment-35715 David Weinberger Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:24:01 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=6945#comment-35715 I've found reinstalling OS X makes my Mac feel zippier. It may be illusory (I don't run before and after benchmarks because I've never reinstalled OS X in order to make my Mac zippier), and it may well be that going through a set of common sense maintenance steps would do what the reinstall does. Or it could be, as you say, voodoo. But it sure feels good. I’ve found reinstalling OS X makes my Mac feel zippier. It may be illusory (I don’t run before and after benchmarks because I’ve never reinstalled OS X in order to make my Mac zippier), and it may well be that going through a set of common sense maintenance steps would do what the reinstall does. Or it could be, as you say, voodoo. But it sure feels good.

]]> By: rick http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/09/making-your-mac-lively-again/comment-page-1/#comment-35669 rick Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:47:16 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=6945#comment-35669 Um... That's a completely worthless article. Unlike Windows, reinstalling the OS on your Mac isn't needed. Not every 6 months, not every 2 years. This is a case of computer voodoo... "it worked for my ancestors on PCs... I'll do the same motions and it should work now." The main advantages on Windows of a reinstall (esp a format and reinstall) were that you start out with a completely unfragmented disk and a clean registry. There's no registry on OS X and the OS handles disk fragmentation for you. If things are slowing down, make sure you're not running with a almost full hard drive and that you have enough RAM for what your do. A lot of people start off with one or two things running when they get a new computer... and as they add programs, they find themselves with seven, eight or more programs open or with background programs running (on demand backup, etc). That's fine, but you might benefit from more memory in that case. Um… That’s a completely worthless article. Unlike Windows, reinstalling the OS on your Mac isn’t needed. Not every 6 months, not every 2 years. This is a case of computer voodoo… “it worked for my ancestors on PCs… I’ll do the same motions and it should work now.” The main advantages on Windows of a reinstall (esp a format and reinstall) were that you start out with a completely unfragmented disk and a clean registry. There’s no registry on OS X and the OS handles disk fragmentation for you.

If things are slowing down, make sure you’re not running with a almost full hard drive and that you have enough RAM for what your do. A lot of people start off with one or two things running when they get a new computer… and as they add programs, they find themselves with seven, eight or more programs open or with background programs running (on demand backup, etc). That’s fine, but you might benefit from more memory in that case.

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