Performance Problems with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008I bought my first mac (Macbook Pro) only a month before Leopard was released. At first I was amazed how well tiger 10.4 performed. I then upgraded to Leopard in the first few days after the launch and was really disappointed. Once the computer ran for about an hour the dock became laggy and unsmooth, window effects were just as bad. I found the reason for this to be the 3d glass effekt of the dock. One can solve this problem by deactivating this greatly advertised feature of leopard by typing the following lines of code into the console.
Solution:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
After this very simple step, I found my new OS to run as smooth as expected.