VIP2's Apple Mac Users....

[dub]

Wiping your computer on Windows would help for the following reasons

- it frees up  space

-it clears resources from apps

-it clears startup apps

-its leaves the HD empty and therefore not fragmented

 

On your mac

-it will free up space, though you can do this yourself, files might be hidden in [HD]/Library and [user]/Library folders (because dragging and dropping an app into the recycler bin doesn't always delete all its resources)

-it clears resources from apps same way, but doing the above or even just uninstalling + reinstalling will do that

-it will remove your startup apps but you can do that manually

-it will leave your HD less fragmented as it would have with Windows, but again you can use a defragmenter yourself and also if you have an SSD fragmentation means nothing (because there's no arm moving about, every part of the drive takes the same amount of time to access from wherever)

[Seth Rollins]

I really need a software programme like audacity or waved for my Mac. Can someone send me a version of this.

 

Every time I find one online it's some blasted virus.

[The King]

Audacity is free isn't it?

[The King]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

[dub]

[Greens]

 

Still relatively new to this mac life, mine is untouched by illegal wares, but I need a free copy of photoshop urgently, best sauce?

 

I suppose this is too late for you?

 

 

Anyone done a clean install of OS X before?

 

Looking to upgrade my MBP and give it a fresh start. 

 

What is it exactly that you want to do? Wipe all your data and install fresh?

 

 

Basically, mac has started moving really sluggish lately. Going to back up all my files, then only install the programs  I use daily. 

[Fighting Weight]

 

 

Still relatively new to this mac life, mine is untouched by illegal wares, but I need a free copy of photoshop urgently, best sauce?

 

I suppose this is too late for you?

 

 

Anyone done a clean install of OS X before?

 

Looking to upgrade my MBP and give it a fresh start. 

 

What is it exactly that you want to do? Wipe all your data and install fresh?

 

 

Basically, mac has started moving really sluggish lately. Going to back up all my files, then only install the programs  I use daily. 

 

 

Yeah

 

Clear your desktop of shit - the way the Mac graphics processing works means if you have a lot of icons on your desktop it will slow your performance down

 

Check activity monitor and sort by %CPU 

 

See what programmes are using the highest amount and what percentage they are taking up, select Memory and sort by Memory, and see what procceses you have running in the background, check they are safe to quit if there is anything needless taking up too much RAM, and close them

 

Check how much space you have

Apple Logo in the top left > About this mac > Storage

 

 

From there you can see what is being taken up by what, and choose which files to move somewhere else (i.e. ext. HD) or delete

 

Check

 

System preferences > users > Login Items

 

And check which apps are selected there, these will be ones that run automatically on start-up, too many and youll be slowed down, a lot of things like Spotify, Steam and Itunes auto-start upon login and eat up quite a lot of ram

 

Delete any other user accounts on the machine

 

If you do all that and your machine is still slow, upgrade the OS (if possible)

 

(Sorry I don't know how much of this stuff you know so wanted to cover everything just incase)

 

A fresh install will probably acheive the same result, but if there are problems with any of the above, you will encounter the same problems later on

[Greens]

Nice one, knew most of that but didn't know about the desktop items, I have a shit load on there.

 

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Chrome is eating a lot of my cpu, especially if I try and open more than 3 tabs at a time.

 

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What anti-virus does everyone have? I know its not considered essential for Macs, I like it for piece of mind, and Avast is cpu intensive when updating. 

[i5_PRODUCER]

The day i bought my mac i slapped chrome on there and within 20 mins of Y.tube the fans started goingg crazy

 

I would just make the move to safari bro , especially if you have and iPhone/pad cause it all syncs and its actually a v good browser

 

we roll out AVG cloud care @ work so i use that , i would try AVG FREE. Does the job and flags up any suspicious files.

[The King]

Fuck Chrome man.

[The King]

Use safari and I'll give you a script to keep flash updated in the bacground

[Fighting Weight]

Nice one, knew most of that but didn't know about the desktop items, I have a sh*t load on there.

 

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Chrome is eating a lot of my cpu, especially if I try and open more than 3 tabs at a time.

 

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What anti-virus does everyone have? I know its not considered essential for Macs, I like it for piece of mind, and Avast is cpu intensive when updating. 

 

Yeah Chrome EATS UP everything

 

It's terrible

 

It's not optimized....Apple want you to use Safari 

[dub]

need the multi-user feature of Chrome but damn, I did not realise it was taking up that much CPU till I checked

[Seth Rollins]

 

I really need a software programme like audacity or waved for my Mac. Can someone send me a version of this.

 

Every time I find one online it's some blasted virus.

 

http://audacity.sourceforge.net

 

 

old age hitting goli now

 

 

LMAO allow me

 

Worst thing is audacity isn't letting me save files as mp3. This is long bruv.

[The King]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq_i18n?s=install&i=lame-mp3

[local]

90gb of my 121gb flash storage is taken up by other

 

what is this other

[local]

so i got a macbook didnt i

 

big reason was im drivin round europe n im gonna need a portable reliable lappy

 

but me bein the idiot i am got 1 with fuck all storage

 

no big deal ive got my 2 tb hard drive

 

which i had to format n lose all my old shit from to even use on an apple product anyway

 

only just realised u need to have these fucking things plugged in to work

 

a large part of the summer leg of this journey i'm camping n gona be without electricty

 

can i add more storage to this piece of shit?

 

i want bare tv shows n films n gona need photoshop on there

[Seth Rollins]

No need to download and keep films on there stream that ish.

 

http://www.movietube.co

 

Yes. .co

 

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I don't know about adding it after. Some man in here do it themselves. I upgraded mine at the time.

[local]

aint gonna have the internet a lot either mate

[dub]

just take it back and get one with better storage

[Seth Rollins]

Then what dub said.

[local]

ive been wanking all over this thing for months

 

i'll give em a bell next week see what they say

[Ephren Taylor]

You can buy a portable 1tb + drive that runs off USB power

 

They may have internal ones for sale in the apple store, so you can get a genius to fit that for you