My DS friends: tips to tidy up MacBook Pro
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Hey!
I only use my MacBook Pro for music production, DJing and basic web surfing (nothing grotty!). It still runs really well but have noticed that iTunes and the Internet have been running slower than normal.
Any tips to tidy things up?
I only use my MacBook Pro for music production, DJing and basic web surfing (nothing grotty!). It still runs really well but have noticed that iTunes and the Internet have been running slower than normal.
Any tips to tidy things up?
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Some basic housekeeping tasks you can do are:
1) Go to Disk Uitility and Repair Disk Permissions/Repair Disk
2) Get 'Clean My Mac' and a system scan will remove temporary, old preference and unwanted files.
3) Zap the PRAM. (Have a Google)
image from what?
images from your music library or images on the itunes store?
the former are stored locally so internet connection is irrelevant.
iTunes store.
just the itunes store being slow then.
Has the store been slow for you then and for weeks?
Thanks, will give 1) a go now.
rarely use it.
what else is slow for you ?
a disk repair permissions is unlikely to make any difference to slow image loading in the itunes store.
Least I'm being a lot more helpful than you are :cool:
Quite and to be honest, it actually has helped a little bit so thank you.
i'm trying to get more specific details of the problem.
"running slower than normal" is too vague to start a diagnosis.
at the moment all we know is that "images in the itunes store" are slow to load. if that's the only problem then clearly the issue is with the itunes store.
likely to be placebo affect.
a repair permissions won't make images load faster in the itunes store.
No, it's not anything like a placebo effect and a rather patronising comment to make to be honest, because it has made a difference. Slow iTunes store images may not have been the only symptom, but because I don't use the Mac for too much else other than two music programmes, it's the only symptom I had and the same symptom has been prevalent for weeks so when I see the images now loading several seconds quicker, I'd say it's NOT a placebo affect.
Thanks for the tip. I've only been a Mac user for a year or so after building my own desktops - I still feel the need to check with other users before doing the things I did with ease when using PCs!
Yeah, I back up my music regularly in case I need to go down this route. So far, I've not felt the need.
Would be great to get some insight from you on how you feel about Macs after a year, especially if you were a proficient windows user.
Can PM me if you don't want to write in thread.
Okay, a quick insight;
Well, for DJing, music and video production, Macs seem much more stable and worthy of the extra money spent on them. Even today when the gap between Mac & PC seems to be shrinking.
I bought a Sony Vaio i7 core laptop w/8gb memory for around £750 and this took an age to configure to work properly for a Traktor Pro set-up using a Traktor Kontrol S4.....but even then, anything more than 2-channels being used created a rather buggy, crash-happy set-up.
I now have a MacBook Pro i7 core laptop w/8gb memory (£1,200) and the difference with running the same set-up is astounding, it really is! I can now confidently run 4-channels at once with zero fear of the damn thing crashing....and this was pretty much an "out the box" set-up! I've not needed to use any of the 8 sample banks yet, but it'd be interesting to see how stable it would be if I was to try running 4-channels, plus 8 sample banks (which, at the risk of sounding patronising, is basically saying 'can it handle upto 12 songs at once')!
But to be fair, if a person won't be doing a lot of multimedia production, I think getting a Mac is probably overkill and would probably be more about style and the need to appear trendy/cool and IMO, a waste of money. We still have the Sony Vaio and with W7, MS Office, Project and Visio installed, it really is a great work laptop!
1. Disable any "antivirus" software. You don't need it and it could cause the effect you described. That includes other stuff such as "Little Snitch" that run in the background.
2. Make sure you have at least 25% free space on your Hard Drive. Any less than this may force the OS to create non-contiguous files, which can slow things down.
3. Clear any files from your "Desktop". Put them where they belong.
4. Do NOT install any form of "clean my Mac" software. I've seen this have dire consequences for speed - especially the insidious "MacKeeper", that pops up adverts everywhere.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php
Thanks for the tips;
1.) I don't have AV installed on my Mac
2.) There's at least 25% HD available
3.) Yeah, already do this
4.) Agreed - no "cleaning" software currently installed