does it?

If you were in a laboratory measuring in partial nanoseconds....yes.

Think they'll get it to work on Intel?

i'm sure it will go universal...at some point. shapeshifter slows my 1.33g powerbook down...a bit. enough to be noticeable (compared to a "test" user account). but not enough to m…

Not very noticibly on my G4 933. However, what did slow it down was Dashboard. I disabled that thing!

I'm new to Mac and coming from the land of Win-doze I am used to always tweaking and optimizing my computers. What utilities, programs or applications do you guys receommend for o…

Wow. No one is willing to share their opinions on what they think is the best overall optimization utility. What's up? Help a new Mac brotha out (ha ha ha) . . .

Disk Warrior has been my ute of choice. It won't work on the Intel chips at the moment...

you gotta wait more than a couple of hours before you bump your post to get more views. Anyway, Im not entirely sure what you mean by optimization since there are tons of differen…

You may be reffering to defragmentation, and tools for it are extremely scarce in the Mac OS X ecosystem. Disk Warrior works in some ways, and doesn't on others. OS X itself defrag…

Anyone tried iDefrag? I've seen it around but have no idea if it's any good or not... http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

Quote: Originally Posted by hickey you gotta wait more than a couple of hours before you bump your post to get more views. Anyway, Im not entirely sure what you mean by optimiz…

Quote: Originally Posted by Daniel Bayer Disk Warrior has been my ute of choice. It won't work on the Intel chips at the moment... That is good information. It could effect…

I will say again that TechTool Pro and Drive Genius are excellent all around utilities that do a lot more than just Optimization.

YOU SHOULD NOT NEED TO "DEFRAGMENT" or "OPTIMIZE" OS X DISKS! This is done automatically by the system everytime you open a file. You are not using Windows anymore!!! From Apple…

When the file and situation meet certain criteria, then OS X will defragment the file, yes, but due to the nature of file systems and hard disks, you can still have a fragmented di…

Onyx is a good tool, and it is free! http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomchu Any fragmented disk will induce a performance penalty over a non-fragmented disk. Quote: Originally Posted by Apple Developer Connect…

Quote: Originally Posted by cambro Guess ADC just got it wrong.... I suppose there might a peculiar situation in which your disk gets screwed up and needs "defragmented" or "o…

i second onyx as an overall great app.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomchu I guess I have to put it in simpler terms for you: File. 30 MB. Continuous. Files after this file on disk. You edit file in multiple places, …

Quote: Originally Posted by jocker Hmm - may have misread you but every time you save a file over a certain size (forget the exact figure now) on any osx system from Panther onw…

Cambro, you should read the entirety of the articles you post: "If your disks are almost full, and you often modify or create large files there's a chance the disks could be fragm…

Dude, I read the article. How about you read the thread? As they say...defragging MIGHT (not WILL...MIGHT) help if your disk is filled to capacity and/or you use really large fil…

And if the file you're working with is 21 MB? What about if you regularily work with a lot of 30 MB+ files? Frick. Get a clue before going all emotional.