Hos Macosxhints finns en intresant tråd om hur man kan få sin mac lite rappare ifall man börjat uppleva att den har börjat bli lite väl seg, se URL:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051117154624368
Klistar in några få av raderna här - resten finns att läsa i länken.
The tip: Reduce the number of icons on your Desktop!
That's it. Really. No, really, try it and see. If you only reduce it by a few, you probably won't notice much of a difference, but the more you remove, the snappier it will feel (dependent on your machine, of course).
Why? Well, every icon on your Desktop is a little window, and as such, has a corresponding backing store allocation in the window server. Lots of these little windows apparently can put a strain on the window server, especially when you've got lots of other (normal) windows open as well.
Don't believe me? Well, you can see for yourself, by running Quartz Debug found in /Developer -> Applications -> Performance Tools (assuming you have the Developer Tools installed -- you do have the Developer Tools installed, don't you?). Show the window list (Tools -> Show Window List), order by Application, and click on the various Finder entries to highlight each "window." You'll soon see that each desktop icon is treated as its very own window. See, I told you so.
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I also read somewhere that if you use a solid color background instead of a picture, that can also affect your speed performance.
Sagt och gjort, har nu rensat docken, valt en av iMacens grymt snygga svartvita bilder som bakgrund, minskat hur stor ikonen från hårdisken ser ut, kört Cocktails bra sätt att få datorn att må bättre samt stängt av allt vad animationer och zoomande fönster. Vinsten blev klart märkbar.
Olle
