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  Debunking the myth--no more Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 12:25 -0400
    Re: Debunking the myth--no more nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 14:32 -0400
      Re: Debunking the myth--no more Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 15:05 -0400
    Re: Debunking the myth--no more dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2013-10-30 07:20 +1100
      Re: Debunking the myth--no more Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-29 17:47 -0400

#51202 — Debunking the myth--no more

Over the years, someone occasionally posts that having a lot of icons on 
your desktop slows down the machine.

I always counter that I have trouble squeezing in one more and yet my 
machine runs fine.

Well, some of you will be happy to know that Apple seems to have sided 
with you.  Now that I have 10.9, my regular account takes ages to be 
ready to go.  But my admin account (ten icons) comes up instantly.

-- 
Wes Groleau

   There are some ideas so wrong that only a
   very intelligent person could believe in them.
                         — George Orwell

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#51215

In article <l4oni2$82a$1@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> Over the years, someone occasionally posts that having a lot of icons on 
> your desktop slows down the machine.

it did when systems were a g3 and had 128 meg of memory. 

each icon is really a little window with its own backing store, and it
didn't take that many of them to use up most of available memory.

modern macs with 4-16 gigs of memory and multicore processors that are
worlds faster along with faster hard drives and certainly ssd, it no
longer makes any significant difference. the effect is probably not
even measurable anymore unless you had thousands and thousands of
icons.

> I always counter that I have trouble squeezing in one more and yet my 
> machine runs fine.
> 
> Well, some of you will be happy to know that Apple seems to have sided 
> with you.  Now that I have 10.9, my regular account takes ages to be 
> ready to go.  But my admin account (ten icons) comes up instantly.

something else is going on.

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#51223

On 10-29-2013, 14:32, nospam wrote:
> something else is going on.

A lot of something elses.....

-- 
Wes Groleau

   The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
   than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
                             — Thomas Jefferson

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#51232

In article <l4oni2$82a$1@dont-email.me>,
 Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> Over the years, someone occasionally posts that having a lot of icons on 
> your desktop slows down the machine.
> 
> I always counter that I have trouble squeezing in one more and yet my 
> machine runs fine.
> 
> Well, some of you will be happy to know that Apple seems to have sided 
> with you.  Now that I have 10.9, my regular account takes ages to be 
> ready to go.  But my admin account (ten icons) comes up instantly.

I doubt it is down to too many icons. 

Perhaps the nature of them in some way. Try temporarily taking half 
off to a temporary folder elsewhere. If the desktop then works as 
before (fast enough), put back half of the ones that you took off... 
etc. If the desktop is still slow after taking half off, put them back 
and take the other half off.

You will understand the elimination principle involved. Francis Bacon 
outlined a few, quite some time ago. J.s. Mill was more thorough. 
People regularly call these principles, The Scientific Method. In 
fact, this a big exaggeration (there is no one set "method"). But I 
mention this in passing.

-- 
dorayme

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#51252

On 10-29-2013, 16:20, dorayme wrote:
>   Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:
>
>> Over the years, someone occasionally posts that having a lot of icons on
>> your desktop slows down the machine.
>>
>> I always counter that I have trouble squeezing in one more and yet my
>> machine runs fine.
>>
>> Well, some of you will be happy to know that Apple seems to have sided
>> with you.  Now that I have 10.9, my regular account takes ages to be
>> ready to go.  But my admin account (ten icons) comes up instantly.
>
> I doubt it is down to too many icons.
>
> Perhaps the nature of them in some way. Try temporarily taking half

Perhaps

> [snip]
>
> You will understand the elimination principle involved. Francis Bacon

Yes, I understand it, but I'm too lazy to do it.  It won't change the 
new behavior.

-- 
Wes Groleau

    “Lewis's case for the existence of God is fallacious.”
"You mean like circular reasoning?”
    “He believes in God.  Therefore, he's fallacious."

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