hey any tips would be welcome. i'm trying to improve the speed of
finale and my computer, i'm on a mac mini (1.42) and will be probably
for another year or so until i get a fast new machine.
finale 2010 seems a bit more of a hog than 2008, and i really noticed
it on a recent job, a score
As a Mac Mini owner, the single best thing to speed up the mini is to
NOT use the internal drive. Move everything to a firewire or usb2
drive. Everything meaning the OS, apps, etc. You will have a huge jump
in speed right away. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has this tip and
others.
hey eric, thanks.
As a Mac Mini owner, the single best thing to speed up the mini is
to NOT use the internal drive. Move everything to a firewire or usb2
drive. Everything meaning the OS, apps, etc. You will have a huge
jump in speed right away. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has this tip
and
However going to 10.5 you will lose your ability to run Classic (OS 9)
programs
Moving the OS to a new hard drive is painless. Totally painless.
Carbon Copy Cloner, or any number of utilities will do it for you. For
free. You won't have to reauthorize Finale. The only program that
On Tue Oct 20, at TuesdayOct 20 12:48 PM, shirling neueweise wrote:
Forth, keep the system up to date. Honestly, unlike Microsoft,
every recent OS X version has been more and more optimized, so
there is a noticeable speed increase between 10.4 and 10.5, and
obviously between 10.5 and
I'd say that my experience on OS X has been that the initial releases
are perhaps a tad slower than the version before. So, upgrading from
10.4.11 to 10.5 you'd notice a slight decrease in speed. But as Apple
releases updates to it, it makes up the difference in speed.
Though if you have
To increase speed, I use a ram disk and have Finale save its temp
files to that.
I know people say that using a ram disk makes no sense on os x but the
difference for me in terms of finale is noticeable and substantial.
This is on a recent iMac, and has been the case forever.
Matthew
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On 20 Oct 2009 at 14:47, shirling neueweise wrote:
hey any tips would be welcome. i'm trying to improve the speed of
finale and my computer, i'm on a mac mini (1.42) and will be probably
for another year or so until i get a fast new machine.
If the RAM on your Mini isn't maxed out, that's
