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OS X 10.2.6 dramatic speed increase... just reinstall!
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My iBook 700 was getting to be kinda slow and crashing a lot when I put it to sleep. I decided to reformat the drive and reinstall 10.2.6.
I just simply booted from the CD, told it to erase the drive with HFS+ (and not to import any old data since I saved it all to my external firewire drive)
When it was done, Software Update ran itself two or three times to get all the necessary updates. Then I downloaded and installed all the apps I was using previously, and moved most of my old data back over.
And now, holy cow! My iBook is FAST again. I almost peed my pants when TextEdit opened in 1/2 bounce instead of 3-4.
Also, I put it to sleep 4 times since the reinstall and so far no more crashes!
I wonder what caused the iBook to get so slow in the first place. Any ideas? I thought only Windows machines did that.
As I've only had this iBook since January, maybe I should put it on a "reinstall every 6 months" regimen. Thoughts?
Ben
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yup, slows down over time, I think making a new user also will give the same speed up.
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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I don't know what kind of performance monitoring you did before the reinstall of OSX. Using top for example to see if a particular process is hogging cpu% time for example.
There are many reasons for it occurring, I guess. 3rd party apps, bad drivers, corrupted plist files. One app that affected me was WeatherPop, but top revealed rather quickly it was the problem.
At least reinstalling the OS, data and apps is no where near the pain as in some other OSes.
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makes me wonder how much of the reported speed increase of "panther" over "jaguar" has to do with the fact that it is freshly installed.
just a thought.....
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Originally posted by noiroi:
makes me wonder how much of the reported speed increase of "panther" over "jaguar" has to do with the fact that it is freshly installed.
just a thought.....
Probably not much, as developers would usually not have a fubarred install of the OS to begin with. I have found OS X performance quite consistent across the MANY computers I have used it on, unless there was a problem as I mentioned before.
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When I upgraded to the latesr Application Enhancer, it was like getting a whole new computer.
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Originally posted by Fallout:
When I upgraded to the latesr Application Enhancer, it was like getting a whole new computer.
which would be?
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