! How to make OS X Fast as !@#$

[chemistry_geek]

For you of those that have G3's or are complaining how slow OS X can be somtimes, You guys have got to try this! Shadow Killer Download it now!! Now! What are you wating for!!? This is such a small app and you only have to open it once to see its efffects forever. I guarantee that your computer will go at least 2 times faster when it comes to menus/resizing/moving windows

Whitesaint:

I'm sorry you felt so threatened by my requests to subtantiate and support your claims that you had to respond with a personal attack againt me. All I asked was for you to SHOW that your methods resulted in at least a 2X increase in performance. Is there a limit to the increase in performance? Is it similar for every Macintosh out there? How many Macs with different hardware and speed had any increase in performance? Was the increase in peformance consistent across G3s, G4s? It isn't like I also requested your answer show significant figures too. It seems to me, and possibly others reading this forum, that your posts have subjects like the theme of a hypothetical Macintosh Tabloid, almost to the point of luring readers to read your posts. Unfortuantely, after reading through the post completely are the readers drawn to the conclusion that "Ah, well, it doesn't quite work THAT way, bummer." Judging by the manner in which you responded, it very well may be true that your posts are not completely true...about as true (and deceiving) as the statements made by P.T. Barnum. Perhaps we'll never know, but we all have our own ideas.

Sincerely yours,

XOXOXO

chemistry_geek

[Rhino_G3]

Originally posted by Tigger
I just tried it on my B/W G3 450.

dragged some windows around, resized them.
I tested in the Finder and in IE and Textedit.

I couldn't feel much speedimprovement, it was rather minimal.
In fact it was so minimal that I rather look at the bit slower shadows

But I guess it surely helps on systems slower than mine, though.

on my 400 it doesn't hardly make a difference. I guess if it makes you happy run it!

[ScottW]

Anyone have the mace, please hand it to me...

Alright folks... lets cool it down around here. This is the town Sheriff. Now I realize your frustration with your slow browser, your slow window resizing, and well, frankly slow everything on your Mac, but this is not a place for a dual. If you want to dual, you will not do so in this town.

Now, shape up, shake... or get on your horses and ride out of this town.



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[paulsomm]

I tried ShadowKiller once. I have a G3/500 powerbook and there was no speed increase, or if there was it was negligable. Not only that, with no shadows OSX is just plain ugly. There are no borders to the windows.

I found a bigger increase was to use the tips/tricks post to replace the Apple Finder (as in the Finder doesn't launch at all) with SNAX. I've also replaced the Dock with DragThing, but I don't recommend it b/c OSX has some issues when the dock isn't running at all (can't minimize or shut down).