Originally Posted by smknSRT8
cosmic, I know that you know a lot about computers but I thought that it doesnt matter how full the HD is when talking about the computers performance?
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter, but as hard drives get filled closer to their capacity, it is more difficult for the OS to defragment files. So if one goes a long time with a full hard drive, you probably will see a degradation of performance. Anyway, that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Originally Posted by smknSRT8
Cosmic, in the activity monitor, any things that cause a decrease in perotrmance in a regular basis? I know with my pc there were a ton of processes that I had no clue what they were. My question I guess is, anything I should look out for?
I don't know of anything off hand, but what i would do is fully quit any applications you have open (don't just hide them in the dock), then open activity monitor. Under the CPU tab, sort the processes by CPU usage. I had to have skitch and firefox open at the time, so they're at the top.
If anything else is taking more than a few percent, i would google the process name to see what it is there for. Often applications will install little programs that run in the background (even when the main app is closed) to help the main app run (these are called "daemons" btw). It's possible that these daemons could collectively tie up your system.
Anyway, i'll have to check on how to do the hardware diags on the OS discs... haven't had to do that yet.