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I think some people are upset with this article/list because of the "anti-graphics" slant it has, especially when many Mac users are visual, graphics oriented people. It's important to note that most of the things mentioned here won't really speed up your Mac at all and a great deal of them actually fall into the category of "things that slow down windows" (not macs).
In the early 90's when Win95 came out with all the animations that were copied from Apple, the older "Unix-dude" crowd hated them, and have advised us ever since to turn off all OS animations and "eye-candy" as they (supposedly) don't perform a function and suck up resources.
Not only is this a *vastly* overplayed hand, (mostly you would save a few measly Kbits on a system that has several Gigs of available RAM), it's much less true on the Mac than the original Win95 argument was. While this kind of "no graphics" advice has become de rigeur in the boring world of grey Linux boxes and grey-on-grey texty interfaces, to follow it would remove most of the reason for choosing a Mac in the first place.
The author owns up to the deception himself when in reply to a comment he says: "... They might not all