Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Jul 2005 12:01 UTC
Most reviews of Tiger were conducted on fairly new and fast Macs. This article, however, focuses on running it on a low-end Mac. And, to the reviewer's surprise, it runs ok.
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RE[4]: Tiger on Mac mini was like a hardware upgrade
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You are aware that it uses no resources until activated, right? [...] If you never use the widgets anyway, the only thing that disabling Dashboard does is free up space on the dock.
The problem is, as soon as you have activated Dashboard *once*, there is no way you can turn it off without the use of external scripts (or rebooting, which takes too long). And when Dashboard is running, visible or not, it eats resources as if it's a bag of chips.
And the more widgets you have activated, the more resources they obviously eat. Even when *not* visible, most widgets use a lot of memory. By using the blocker, Dashboard is truly and completely disabled, and I have no way in turning it on without re-enabling it in the blocker app. Apple should have provided that functionality out-of-the-box.