Leopard speed

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Callahan <kcall at mac.com>:
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>> I'm rather shocked at how fast Leopard is - (MBPro 17)
>> and this is while Spotlight is indexing my internal drive  AND Time
>> Machine is doing its first full-backup.
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> What kind of install did you do . . .update, archive and install, or  
> erase and install?

I usually wipe my internal drive clean and start from scratch.   But,  
I have so many sample libraries (audio) strewn about .. and the  
installation for my music apps, sample apps and others takes a VERY  
long time.  Also, all my docs and media(photos, movies, DVDs etc)   
live on external drives, so my MBPro is really just the system,  
Developer and most of my apps (some apps I keep external as well).   
Not sure why it's about 83Gig !  but I felt the simple UPGRADE (not  
the archive install) , for now, would be okay.  I'm going to buy a  
Dual Quad (next rev).

I expect the system to be even faster on a clean install.

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> Did you do a Time Machine backup before the install?

how would I do that?
I've been doing Apple Backup archives nightly.


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> How long did the install take?

the install took 30 minutes on my MBPro 17   2.33 Ghz with 2Gig RAM.   
100 Gig 7200 RPM internal drive.

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> Are connected via cable or wireless

all my drives are firewire 400 or 800

> . . .and do you see any noticeable network activity performance due  
> to the Time Machine process?

I haven't noticed any performance hits per sé.  And as I said, even  
while all this Spotlight indexing and TM backup is happening,  
everything seems quite a bit faster than Tiger.