Actually, fine tuning the OS to me means tuning extensions.
The question might be "What do you want to do with your SMax?" I used to do plenty with mine. I would be digitizing LPs one day, doing some heavy duty graphics manipulation another and doing internet browsing another.
What I did was to set my extensions and control panels for each task. When I was doing graphics, I didn't need internet extensions and control panels. When I was cruising the internet, I didn't need all the sound panel/input/output stuff.
You can use the EM extensions manager or Conflict Catcher(R) to create and manage your "sets." I used a number of sets for each major task I was working on. One set would be for graphics, another for audio work, another for games, and yet another for internet games.
Tuning the hardware? Accelerator card, better than stock video card, maximum RAM, CDRW/DVD, external speakers, more HD space on PCI cards (ATA-66, ATA-133).
I really don't know where it all ends. This is with just with pre-OSX systems. Because I'm lazy, my SMax stops at OS 9.1. My machines in order of importance to me are:
PowerMac G4 MDD dual 1GB OS 10.3.7
HP Pavillion 400MHz Linux Fedora Core 2 - server and interesting stuff
iBook dual USB 800MHz OS 10.3.7 - for traveling on the road
StarMax MT5000/250 G3/350 upgrade OS 9.1
Assorted other machines which are not plugged in (Macs, Apple //gs, ][e)
Broken down trash PCs and assorted hardware.
Consider what you want to do and then match your hardware and software to meet your needs.
Paul
At 3:31 PM -0500 1/24/05, StarMax List wrote:
Subject: Re: Fine Tuning Mac OS on StarMax
Bill,
There are a ton of extensions and CPs that you probably don't need enabled; turning them off speeds up your booting.
Click the little information pop-down in the extensions manager to determine what each one does.
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