Mac OS X Speed

Another way to speed up performance on your iMac 266 Megahurts is to download TinkerTool from http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/. With TinkerTool, you can turn-off antialiased text. You can also reduce your monitor settings from millions to thousands. I tried this and it sped up things significantly on my Mac, but I eventually set everything back to the default settings.
 
could it at all be possible that the harddrive is just broken for some reason?
 
I don't see any reason at all that a new Hard Drive of recent manufacture would cause any heat related problems with an iMac. The majority of newer models of 7200RPM drives are actually cooler running that a lot of 5+ year old 5400RPM drives.


Of course, some manufacturers drives are warmer than others. A few years ago, I checked the temp of the stock drive that was in my G4 (it was a Western Digital 10 GB 5400RPM). The drive that replaced it (40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM) averaged a couple of degrees cooler than the stock WD drive.

FWIW
 
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