OS X 10.1 is still very heavy on my iMac 350, despite the improvement performance-wise from 10.0.x. Simple tasks such as window-resizing (yes, I'm the kind of user who does actually resize the window a lot), moving through menus, and scrolling are not fast enough for me to use my Mac and 10.1 as a day-to-day box. And I won't even mention web-browsing, no matter the browser.
As much as I would like to see improvements in these points by way of further optimisation from Apple and the release of higher version apps from 3rd party vendors, at this point I want to use 10.1 as my day-to-day OS, and hence I became interested in reducing the load of the OS as much as possible. I've noticed that the following measures will improve performance at the cost of aqua-prettiness:
1. Turning off all the anti-aliasing options with Tinkertools
2. Using 'shadow killer' to disable all the shadows surrounding windows and menus
I've also heard of themes which disable transparent menus, although I wasn't able to get one running in 10.1.
I would like to hear about any other such measures to improve the performance of 10.1, even if it implies a sacrifice of GUI prettiness.. After all, I'm mainly going to use the developer tools, and I can afford to do without fancy eye-candy that slows down my coding.
As much as I would like to see improvements in these points by way of further optimisation from Apple and the release of higher version apps from 3rd party vendors, at this point I want to use 10.1 as my day-to-day OS, and hence I became interested in reducing the load of the OS as much as possible. I've noticed that the following measures will improve performance at the cost of aqua-prettiness:
1. Turning off all the anti-aliasing options with Tinkertools
2. Using 'shadow killer' to disable all the shadows surrounding windows and menus
I've also heard of themes which disable transparent menus, although I wasn't able to get one running in 10.1.
I would like to hear about any other such measures to improve the performance of 10.1, even if it implies a sacrifice of GUI prettiness.. After all, I'm mainly going to use the developer tools, and I can afford to do without fancy eye-candy that slows down my coding.