Hey guys.
So, I'm running Lion on my 4,1 Macbook, 2.1GHz CPU, 6GB memory, SSD... etc. And of course the lame GMA X3100 integrated graphics.
On my 2004 Power Mac running Leopard, I recently went and killed every bit of eye candy, user interface animations, etc, that I could. Like stopping window opening animations, dock bouncing... and it's amazing how much performance stepped up.
I've done the same to the Macbook as much as I can, using Onyx and the Secrets preference pane - but I can't turn off enough. It's sucks because the GPU is so mediocre that even the spinning beach ball of death is running at a less-than-totally smooth framerate. Hell my 466MHz G4 tower with Leopard can do that smoothly.
Worst example, Quicktime X, going to full screen. Or also, switching spaces in Mission Control. You get a slow animation that, also laggy with Quicktime X, that basically means you can't do anything with your system because it's still running a pretty animation that serves no use.
So yeah, share your tips for turning off as much extraneous Lion eye candy you can
So, I'm running Lion on my 4,1 Macbook, 2.1GHz CPU, 6GB memory, SSD... etc. And of course the lame GMA X3100 integrated graphics.
On my 2004 Power Mac running Leopard, I recently went and killed every bit of eye candy, user interface animations, etc, that I could. Like stopping window opening animations, dock bouncing... and it's amazing how much performance stepped up.
I've done the same to the Macbook as much as I can, using Onyx and the Secrets preference pane - but I can't turn off enough. It's sucks because the GPU is so mediocre that even the spinning beach ball of death is running at a less-than-totally smooth framerate. Hell my 466MHz G4 tower with Leopard can do that smoothly.
Worst example, Quicktime X, going to full screen. Or also, switching spaces in Mission Control. You get a slow animation that, also laggy with Quicktime X, that basically means you can't do anything with your system because it's still running a pretty animation that serves no use.
So yeah, share your tips for turning off as much extraneous Lion eye candy you can
