It's not all bad, after all. Things are looking up. After doing a manual migrate of my data onto a clean clean install, the MacBook appears to be flying along quite nicely thank you very much.
Yesterday when I tried the obligatory compilation test, the best I got was 1 minute 52 seconds. The first time I ran it this evening, I got 1 minute 19 seconds - much better!
The laptop is still running hot, but the vibration appears to be gone. Perhaps the cycle ride back from the office shook something back into place?
Somewhere along the way I managed to reclaim 15gb of disk space by manually migrating, which probably means I've forgotten to copy across a few applications.
Incidentally, quite a few apps are available in Universal Binary format (either formal releases or unofficial development builds), including (in the order I installed them) Universal Mozilla apps: Thunderbird, Firefox, Camino; Quicksilver, Gmail Notifier, MenuMeters, Unison, Transmit, Alarm Clock, Subversion, Q, VLC, Adium, OpenOffice.org, Eclipse 3.2RC1, SubEthaEdit, NetNewsWire, Omnigraffle Pro, Omnioutliner, Superduper!, TextMate, Salling Clicker.
Notable omissions (but working just fine anyway) include Ecto, Tinkertool, SlimBatteryMonitor, wClock.
Notable omissions because I haven't reinstalled them: PathFinder. I suspect PathFinder caused at least some of the performance issues in the last installation.
No doubt there'll be more applications and tweaks to install, but I think I have a usable workable system to get me through the rest of the week now.
Posted by savs at April 18, 2006 10:50 PM