Mac bog

[Queso]

sup?

i'm chillen' on my apple g5 right now that i have had for about a year.

it's just now starting to lag just a tad....does anybody know how i can speed this baby up? i'm running osx 10.3.9 if that makes any difference.

[Tormod]

You have a fricking G5 and complain about lag? Get a life... :eek:

 

...or get Tiger, perhaps? More memory? Less pron?

[Queso]

hahahahaha, well....when i first got this thing it was instant. now...SOMETIMES an application will take a few seconds...heh im not complaining, i'm just afraid it will keep getting worse and i'm trying to keep on top of it. more memory! need to get some..

[alexander]

First upgrade to 10.4, it is a better and more resource efficient system.

Second Get more Ram.

Third check how much space you got left on your hard drive, if you are within 20% of the max, get rid of as many of the unnecessary files/applications you can, yes, porn folders fall under here, you can always torrent more...

Forth, Delete all microsoft applications on the mac, use Firefox and one of the Office packages that are compattible with office documents

Finally, make sure that you dont have that much stuff under /tmp directory, stuff collects there and builds up, so check that once in a while.

 

You have a fricking G5 and complain about lag

 

i think that there are better words then "fricking" to describe your emotions there, so let me blah it out:

 

You have a f@&%(*g G f@&%(*g 5 you f@&%(*g lucky f@&%(*g b@#$%^d and you f@&%(*g complain about f@&%(*g lag? Thats just f@&%(*g f@&%ed up...

 

Oh and if that lag is too much to take, or something happens to you, I want you to know, from the depth of my heart, I got the first dibbs on that computer!

Now what did you say your adress was? :eek: (yes I am kidding)

[Queso]

ahahahah thanks a lot, i'll write you down in my will.

[alexander]

No offense meant though, orbsycli, that is my sort of way of showing how much I envy your box, that is one sweet box that i almost never even see in my dreams and dont have the money to buy. But I might get a G5 laptop when they come out sometime towards christmass :eek:

[geokker]

I dabbled with Tiger on the fastest G5 (this week) the other week. I have a fairly old Dell at home running Ubuntu (a flavour of Linux). On both machines, opening menu's, windows and general navigation was about the same i.e. not instantaneous. What's the deal? Why, in 2005, do we still have to deal with delay? On Windows, I have to wait for the Start menu to 'draw in'.

 

I have a Macintosh SE FDHD. When I click down on the 'shutdown' button, by the time I've lifted my finger, the machine is off. Are we taking giant leaps backwards? 99% of the 'features' can be chucked out the window. Rendering the GUI should not be an issue - you shouldn't even notice it - it shouldn't get in the way of the applications.

[alexander]

I dabbled with Tiger on the fastest G5 (this week) the other week. I have a fairly old Dell at home running Ubuntu (a flavour of Linux). On both machines, opening menu's, windows and general navigation was about the same i.e. not instantaneous. What's the deal? Why, in 2005, do we still have to deal with delay? On Windows, I have to wait for the Start menu to 'draw in'.

 

I have a Macintosh SE FDHD. When I click down on the 'shutdown' button, by the time I've lifted my finger, the machine is off. Are we taking giant leaps backwards? 99% of the 'features' can be chucked out the window. Rendering the GUI should not be an issue - you shouldn't even notice it - it shouldn't get in the way of the applications.

 

you have chosen bad OSes if you are looking for performance. They both OS X, Ubuntoo and windows are all gui centric, and as long as an OS is GUI centric, true performance can not be judged. OS X is basically Free BSD with a shiny mac GUI on top, Ubuntoo gomes with ginormous Gnome interface and a whole loads of useless stuff in the kernel as well as tools that make it more user-firendly, but that was the aim of the distro in the first place, windows is over 10 million lines of poor code long, and doesnt even have fork/exec so i wont even start discussing it here. Still I run OS X 10.4 on my 450, and i have not had to wait long for anything, not the gui, not even expose or the dock, which has all the shinyness turned on, and especially not the Sleep or Shutdown (but i like to sleep it more). I also run a dual G5 in school, and i havent seen any lag, even with 5-6 applications running at the same time, i havent seen anything close to any windows shutdown times, and sleep works perfectly. Perhaps you have caught the machine at a bad time, say when it was updating its slocate database or doing cleanup or slowing down the hard drive because you havent used it for a while, then i can see lag as a possibility, also if there was no graphics card, i can see where you'd have lag in the interface, oh that and little Ram would lead to such results, but dont accuse Mac or Linux or BSD of not having inefficient OSes, FYI many changes in 10.4 were behind the scenes and made the new os more efficient, work faster, be better and more secure, as well as add awesome search features, unlike windows I might add, which becomes less efficient with every new version, and next one is not looking incredibly bad!

 

Oh, and P.S. you dont have to explain any Linux distro, or any OS for that matter, we are too pretty geeky... ooh i just had a tought, perhaps i will make some kind of questionare, the winner gets crowned computer geek of the month and appears on hypography newsletter (as the interviewee), in addition to his shirt and puzzles... mmm, intimidating, but beware I will make it really hard (25 hard core geek questions with long responses) ... lets see what Tormod thinks about it ....