TOO MANY ICONS IN DOCK!!! Good or Bad??

YaZ · Jul 24, 2008

Hi All,

Im a new MAC user, and i wanted to know something about the icons in my dock. If i decide to put a lot of icons in my dock (app shortcuts, etc), will this slow down my pc?? Is it Good or Bad to do this ???

My Mac specs are:
iBook G4 PPC, 1.07Ghz, 512MB, running Mac OS X 10.4.11

Cheers ,,
YaZ

sassula · Jul 24, 2008

I'm learning Logic Pro 8, and one of the suggestions made in the manual is to get rid of unnecessary widgets in the dock. Logic eats up a lot more CPU cycles than, say, word processing.

So it depends on what you need your iBook to do. If you're running Apps that are a bit CPU hungry, then a little bit of streamlining will likely help.

shahvikram123 · Jul 24, 2008

No, it's not good or bad if you have more icons in your dock; its personal preference.

skaheadpunk · Jul 24, 2008

sassula said:
I'm learning Logic Pro 8, and one of the suggestions made in the manual is to get rid of unnecessary widgets in the dock. Logic eats up a lot more CPU cycles than, say, word processing.

So it depends on what you need your iBook to do. If you're running Apps that are a bit CPU hungry, then a little bit of streamlining will likely help.

Widgets on the Dashboard can make a difference, but I don't think Dock icons will. I used to have tons...

Lifeisabeach · Jul 24, 2008

Having a large number of Dock items can have a negative impact. Remember... the OS has to continuously render each icon on the Dock as long as it's there.

macuser1232 · May 17, 2012

i have 38 icons on my 13 inch macbook pro.

macuser1232 · May 17, 2012

sassula said:
I'm learning Logic Pro 8, and one of the suggestions made in the manual is to get rid of unnecessary widgets in the dock. Logic eats up a lot more CPU cycles than, say, word processing.

So it depends on what you need your iBook to do. If you're running Apps that are a bit CPU hungry, then a little bit of streamlining will likely help.

im also learning logic pro. its pretty difficult though. do you have any tips on where i can learn it easily?

vansmith · May 17, 2012

I'm going to guess that since this is a four year old thread, (s)he won't be responding.

macuser1232 · May 17, 2012

vansmith said:
I'm going to guess that since this is a four year old thread, (s)he won't be responding.

well if you didn't know, when you post comments on a post your subscribe to the post and it emails you when someone else comments ;D

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