| styrafome |
01-31-2005 08:19 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by hayne
Especially if you don't reinstall all the stuff you had on it before:
- some 3rd party "enhancements" can muck up the system
- disk drives get increasingly slower as they get filled up (something like one-half speed at 80% full) - especially relevant for slow laptop drives.
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Yes, you got it, those were exactly the reasons I chose to reformat. On the old laptop, I had installed all kinds of shareware/freeware toys over the years and never got around to removing the ones I don't care about anymore. I was sure some of them were being a drag on the CPU and affecting stability (can you say Norton Anti-Virus??). It had some trouble going to sleep and would sometime freeze up every couple weeks, which is an alarming frequency on a Mac. Also it was partitioned, some of the partitions were running out of space, and now I don't think partitioning is needed anymore.
After the reformat, it's stable as a rock in concrete. I might reformat it again...sometime near the end of the decade... :D |
