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Making a program run faster

  • 04-08-2014 11:17pm
    #1
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    Hi I was wondering if it was possible to make a certain program (teamviewer ) run faster on my macbook (mid 2007) I've done all the obvious things like system clean ups, but I was wondering if installing a light os or something that requires no prossesing power to run so that more is allocated to the program. Is this possible or am I just overthinking things? If there is a more practal way please let me know.


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  • #2
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Unfortunately your best options are more RAM or a new computer. Yours is 7 years old now.

    Alternatively erase your entire machine and reinstall the OS, that usually speeds things up for a bit.


  • #3
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    Zcott wrote: »
    Unfortunately your best options are more RAM or a new computer. Yours is 7 years old now.

    Alternatively erase your entire machine and reinstall the OS, that usually speeds things up for a bit.

    Oh I was just wondering cause my nexus 7 2013 has lower specs but runs the same program a lot faster. And if I need more ram is it possible to partition my HD so that it could be used as additional ram?


  • #4
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭cython


    Henmistro wrote: »
    Oh I was just wondering cause my nexus 7 2013 has lower specs but runs the same program a lot faster.
    Teamviewer for Android and Teamviewer for Mac are completely different applications. Yes, they share a name and can work together, but it should be written in different languages on both platforms, and supports different features also.
    Henmistro wrote: »
    And if I need more ram is it possible to partition my HD so that it could be used as additional ram?

    No. Your OS should already do the closest thing to this, which is called swapping (whereby your HDD is used for virtual memory), but HDDs are much, much slower than RAM, so it's akin to using a Lada for extra capacity because your sports car has no seats left - it will never perform as well.


  • #5
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    Oh OK thanks then ur advice has been really helpful. I have one last thing then... Dual booting android?? Haha I'm just trying to find a way that is free XD


  • #6
    Kavrocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Kavrocks


    Henmistro wrote: »
    I have one last thing then... Dual booting android??
    No.

    If anything try downloading more RAM or installing a small lightweight Linux variant.


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  • #7
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    Oh ok thanks again


  • #8
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    There are alternatives to teamviewer. OS X has its own remote desktop client and there's always SSH...


  • #9
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    Yeah I could always try that it's just I'm kinda half way in dual booting xbubtu on my mac but if that doesn't slove anything I'll try that. Thanks.


  • #10
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Linux, like OS X has SSH support. With X based distros you can forward X over SSH.

    What are you using teamviewer for. Are you connecting to a Windows box?


  • #11
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    5uspect wrote: »
    Linux, like OS X has SSH support. With X based distros you can forward X over SSH.

    What are you using teamviewer for. Are you connecting to a Windows box?

    I'm not too sure on forwarding X to SSH but I'll look it up and see. Yes I'm using team viewer to connect to my windows computer.


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  • #12
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Yeah, you'll need PuTTy on the windows machine then. Probably not really worth it. You can X forward from Linux to a Mac but not always the other way since most OS X apps don't use X.

    Are they on the same network or remote?


  • #13
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Microsoft do Remote Desktop client for Mac. You will find it in the Mac App Store.


  • #14
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    Microsoft do Remote Desktop client for Mac. You will find it in the Mac App Store.

    It comes with MS office for Mac too. You've got to do a bit of hacking to enable it in Win7 Home Premium tho.


  • #15
    Henmistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Henmistro


    5uspect wrote: »
    Yeah, you'll need PuTTy on the windows machine then. Probably not really worth it. You can X forward from Linux to a Mac but not always the other way since most OS X apps don't use X.

    Are they on the same network or remote?

    Sorry about the late reply I've been away for a few days. Anyways I just wanted to let you know that I've dual booted lubuntu on my mac an installed team viewer on it. It is noticeably faster and the quality is a lot better I tested it with some flash games as videos on YouTube and they are now watchable.


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