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TROUBLESHOOTING
Performance notes
Here are a few tips to get the most from your Turbo 601:
• Whenever possible, keep the Modern Memory Manager turned on.
• If you are using an accelerated video card, contact the vendor to be sure
that you have the latest software and/or firmware that allows the card to
operate in accelerated m ode with the PowerPC.
• Upgrade your non-native applications, control panels and extensions to
PowerPC versions as they becom e available.
• As Apple updates the operating system, additional portions of it may
becom e native. By upgrading, you can increase your performance.
• If you have a NuBus SCSI controller card in your Mac, see Chapter 4 for infor
mation on enabling SCSI Manager 4.3 in the Turbo 601 control panel.
• Vary the size o f the Apple Disk Cache, located in the Memory control
panel, to find an optimal setting for your system. Some hard drives and spe
cific applications perform better with the cache set to its minimum.
• Keep the number of control panel and system extension files that you have in
the System Folder to a minimum. If you find that you are not using the fea
tures o f such a file, turn it off with the Extension Manager. Not only can
these files cause conflicts with one another, they can also rob the system’
s
performance, especially if they are not written in the native PowerPC format.
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