However going to 10.5 you will lose your ability to run Classic (OS 9)
programs
Moving the OS to a new hard drive is painless. Totally painless.
Carbon Copy Cloner, or any number of utilities will do it for you. For
free. You won't have to reauthorize Finale. The only program that
complained to me was Digital Performer. Everything else was just fine
being moved back and forth. Plus, if you do that you automatically
defragment your hard drive.
iDefrag will work on a drive that is "online" but for better results
you need to boot off another drive or something. Another util that
does defragmenting and other things is TechTool. It even makes a
bootable DVD for you. I highly recommend it.
I cannot find the article about moving the Mac Mini to firewire. But I
ran my G4 mac mini off a firewire drive and it was a faster. I mean,
7200 RPM 3.5 inch drive compared to the laptop drive in the mini,
which might have been 4200 RPM depending on the model.......
On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:48 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
hey eric, thanks.
As a Mac Mini owner, the single best thing to speed up the mini is
to NOT use the internal drive. Move everything to a firewire or
usb2 drive. Everything meaning the OS, apps, etc. You will have a
huge jump in speed right away. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has
this tip and others.
wow! never heard of that but i guess trying it can't hurt, although
moving the OS seems a bit radical and frightens me 8-)
Second, max out the memory.
yeah i maxed the thing out everywhere i could when i bought it, my
understanding was this was the only way to make the mini worth
buying if you really used it professionally.
Third, though OS X supposedly does defragmentation on the hard
drive, a good tool like iDefrag or Speedtools can ensure that you
have contiguous space on your drive for temp files, so the hard
drive head isn't moving all over the place.
seem to remember not being able to get iDefrag to work... but will
look into it again.
Forth, keep the system up to date. Honestly, unlike Microsoft,
every recent OS X version has been more and more optimized, so
there is a noticeable speed increase between 10.4 and 10.5, and
obviously between 10.5 and 10.6 (if you have an Intel mac to run it
on).
ok, thanks, this is a great tip. i hate upgrading, there is always
things to correct / change that take up too much time for me, but
knowing this just might get me to finally go for 10.5 (don't have
intel).
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