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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 971456" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I feel that compulsion as well and occasionally give into it - but the funny thing is, the performance of my Mac doesn't really change much - but I do notice that it takes longer to boot. </p><p></p><p>If you look at the various tasks these tools perform, most of them are simple housekeeping (purging caches, cleaning up temp files, etc). Unless the drive is close to capacity, if you think about it, how do these things really impact performance? </p><p></p><p>Take the cwa107 challenge...</p><p></p><p>Use XBench and Geekbench to run a benchmark on your machine today. Let the machine alone (from a maintenance perspective) for 3 months (set an iCal reminder) and benchmark it again. I'll bet you won't see any difference in performance. Frankly, I'll bet if you let it go for 6 months you wouldn't see a difference either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 971456, member: 24098"] I feel that compulsion as well and occasionally give into it - but the funny thing is, the performance of my Mac doesn't really change much - but I do notice that it takes longer to boot. If you look at the various tasks these tools perform, most of them are simple housekeeping (purging caches, cleaning up temp files, etc). Unless the drive is close to capacity, if you think about it, how do these things really impact performance? Take the cwa107 challenge... Use XBench and Geekbench to run a benchmark on your machine today. Let the machine alone (from a maintenance perspective) for 3 months (set an iCal reminder) and benchmark it again. I'll bet you won't see any difference in performance. Frankly, I'll bet if you let it go for 6 months you wouldn't see a difference either. [/QUOTE]
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