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too slow, quiksilver or alfred ftw
by albemuth 16y ago
too slow, quiksilver or alfred ftw
- quellhorst 16y agoWith SSD it is as fast as quicksilver.
- mrcharles 16y agoI cannot stress heavily enough how brilliantly fast MacOS is when running off an SSD. I thought windows was peppy when I put an SSD in my desktop. Since putting an SSD in my MBP, MacOS X went from a sluggish annoyance where icons bounced 5-10 times before an app loaded, to a speedy "no time to bounce at all" app start.
- pygy_ 16y agoI did the same with a first generation MBP (bought in the summer 2006). I replaced the main HD with a Corsair V64, and replaced the optical drive with the old HDD with this kit[1]. The HDD now works in plain old ATA, but it doesn't matter. I use it for mass storage, not for speed. The results are amazing. It takes: - 21 seconds from cold boot to login prompt (and 5 more to get a responsive finder), - 13 seconds to shut down, and - 22 seconds to wake from deep sleep (2GB of RAM). As you said, the apps launch almost instantly, including Office 2011 which was incredibly slow from the hard disk. -- [1]http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ ($99). They also provide an external USB case for the DVD drive. Ifixit offers a similar adapter, cheaper ($60), but without the case. http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/9-5-mm-Optical-Bay-SATA-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/IF107-078 http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/9-5-mm-Optical-Bay-SATA-Ha...
- ljegou 16y agoI agree, but i kept wondering about the lifespan of my apple-samsung ssd, without trim.
- geuis 16y agoIt hasnt been slow for several years.
- sfphotoarts 16y agoI beg to differ. It's sluggish. Depends what you are used to I guess. I don't find it even a decent calculator, try doing a division!! It launches the calculator and doesn't even both to pre-fill the question.
- jonknee 16y agoIt does division fine. Pre-filling would definitely be handy though.
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- Groxx 16y agoMine was exceedingly slow when I had >2,000,000 files (gigabytes of versioned source code will do that). Several seconds to pull up an application by name. 10-30 seconds to pull up an infrequently-accessed document by filename. > 1 minute to pull up a PDF by content. All of which caused a few seconds delay between every result-set returned, during which it was entirely unresponsive. It still worked faster - pressing `enter` would grab the top result when it came up - but that's unacceptably slow.
- Legion 16y agoQuicksilver or something similar is a must. I have become SO much happier with my desktop environments since embracing Quicksilver and Gnome-Do.