Apple Users ------- Attention!
Sorry, just trying to get your attention. Do you get the annoying delayed typing, the little circle that rotates forever (indicating windows is still trying to initialize something), the move your ...
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A mac can get slow over time as well, as will a Linux bases machine.
However, it is far quicker to go from a fast Windows machine to it being slow because of the inherent problem with the Windows OS. It is far to easy to slow it down by loading up background apps.
Extreme load-up story:
I had one client buy a brand new laptop and three weeks later she brought it to me complaining it was slow.
Upon looking at it, yes, it was slow booting, Slow running applications. She had really loaded it up with eye-candy **** that was really making it slow.
The ones I can remember:
- Animated background. She had basically a screen saver for a background screen
- Weather thing. I don't know why, but this thing was eating up 5-15% of CPU at any given moment. Typically these type of background apps are 1% or less.
- Virtual Pet - an animation that is in a window that reminds you to take it for walks and feed it.
- HP printer status - believe it or not, HP doesn't care how much CPU they eat to give you updates.
- Her boot process took a long time anyway, but to add to the long boot time, she had Firefox, Thunderbird, Word, Excel, and iTunes auto-launching on login. Gee, wonder why it took 3 minutes to boot?
There were a few others background apps, but I can't recall off hand.
One of the biggest problems is Adobe and Oracle-Java have regular updates to their products that by default want to install other applications. McAfee Scanner, Yahoo Toolbars, etc. Be sure to uncheck the check boxes when doing updates to Acrobat, Java, and Flash.
However, it is far quicker to go from a fast Windows machine to it being slow because of the inherent problem with the Windows OS. It is far to easy to slow it down by loading up background apps.
Extreme load-up story:
I had one client buy a brand new laptop and three weeks later she brought it to me complaining it was slow.
Upon looking at it, yes, it was slow booting, Slow running applications. She had really loaded it up with eye-candy **** that was really making it slow.
The ones I can remember:
- Animated background. She had basically a screen saver for a background screen
- Weather thing. I don't know why, but this thing was eating up 5-15% of CPU at any given moment. Typically these type of background apps are 1% or less.
- Virtual Pet - an animation that is in a window that reminds you to take it for walks and feed it.
- HP printer status - believe it or not, HP doesn't care how much CPU they eat to give you updates.
- Her boot process took a long time anyway, but to add to the long boot time, she had Firefox, Thunderbird, Word, Excel, and iTunes auto-launching on login. Gee, wonder why it took 3 minutes to boot?
There were a few others background apps, but I can't recall off hand.
One of the biggest problems is Adobe and Oracle-Java have regular updates to their products that by default want to install other applications. McAfee Scanner, Yahoo Toolbars, etc. Be sure to uncheck the check boxes when doing updates to Acrobat, Java, and Flash.
