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PowerBook seems slower
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<blockquote data-quote="TylerMoney" data-source="post: 40510"><p>It's probably cause you need to somehow defragment your hardrive. when you use any computer for a long enough time, it gets slower. The hardrive gets fragmented..for many reasons. You delete something..and when you put something else on, it looks for the first place to put it..there might be a spot right in the middle; if that spot isn't big enough, it puts the rest of that file in the next free space. After a while this makes your computer slower; it has to do all kinds of searching through your hard drive for one file. Defraging fixes this...I'm not sure if mac osx has a default defrager, but I have heard you can get third party ones. I'm sure there is probably a way to run a similar task without that..maybe through terminal?...someone else can probably answer that one?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TylerMoney, post: 40510"] It's probably cause you need to somehow defragment your hardrive. when you use any computer for a long enough time, it gets slower. The hardrive gets fragmented..for many reasons. You delete something..and when you put something else on, it looks for the first place to put it..there might be a spot right in the middle; if that spot isn't big enough, it puts the rest of that file in the next free space. After a while this makes your computer slower; it has to do all kinds of searching through your hard drive for one file. Defraging fixes this...I'm not sure if mac osx has a default defrager, but I have heard you can get third party ones. I'm sure there is probably a way to run a similar task without that..maybe through terminal?...someone else can probably answer that one? [/QUOTE]
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