[Aristizzle]

Yes, these are all good points. When using Nisus, all I have open is Nisus and I do use xslimmer. I've disabled all startup apps, enabled quartz, run cleanmy mac. So far I've experienced better performance after having disabled dashboard. Maybe killing spotlight would help too, but that's just so handy, I'd hate to nix it. I'm willing to bet Word for Mac 2008 would not eat up so much CPU, but ugh, that price! Outrageous! Teddible! Just teddible! Anyway, these things aren't really macs so one must be willing to live within one's means. In other words, my iMac runs Nisus Pro just fine.

[scytale]

If you want to recover a little bit more memory and CPU you could quit the Finder. By default Finder does not have a Quit menu item but you can put it back by running the following command in a Terminal window.

$ defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES
$ killall Finder

The defaults line tells Finder to include the Quit menu and the "killall Finder" restarts the Finder so the menu appears.

You can restart the Finder using the Finder icon in the dock. Also Finder will restart automatically as soon as OS X realises no other applications are running.

You can find detailed instructions (with screenshots) for this change at http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-%22Q...-With-Terminal

[Aristizzle]

Brilliant! Thanks so much!

[jessicas158]

Well, upgrading RAM is a good move as it maximizes CPU usage, but it does not resolves the internal interruptions and hurdles which are caused due to the presence of unwanted stuffs. So, you need to clean it to in order to improve Mac speed and make it work in a better manner.