Pro's & Cons - spam23

There is already a Freeware App called TrimTheFat, i've been using it since I got my iMac in May.

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Wednesday, November 22 2006 @ 01:41 AM PST

Pro's & Cons - i_gaucho

Another alternative is the free open source Monolingual. It removes architectures and localizations. But, after using both Monolingual and Xslimmer, I have to say that I greatly prefer the latter. Xslimmer gives you more control over the apps that get "slimmed", allows you to revert the changes, and tells you up front how much space you will actually save. Monolingual has no blacklist and simply scans your hard drive for Universal apps which you may or may not want to reduce. (It's pretty well known for killing PPC apps on Intel systems if you're not careful.)

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Saturday, December 16 2006 @ 01:12 AM PST

Pro's & Cons - jimturse

Monolingual already does this.

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Sunday, December 24 2006 @ 12:37 PM PST

Pro's & Cons - gordonbyrnes_dotmac

"slimming" apps will not improve launch times or improve memory usage. The code not relevant to your architecture is never executed, so there is no resource or performance benefit from removing it. The only benefit to running this app is gaining that extra space.

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Tuesday, December 26 2006 @ 03:22 AM PST

Pro's & Cons - Greg_Weston_572

I'm trying to figure out how the blacklist is a con, but I guess it's implied in the phrasing ... "borked by"

That's not the reality. The reality is that there are a relative handful of apps that are designed to check at launch time to see if they've been modified and refuse to run if they detect any changes. The apps are not broken by Xslimmer or TTF or Downsizer or whatever. They continue to operate exactly as their authors intended, but the authors intended them to not run if they've been "tampered with."

This is, of course, troublesome because the OS is perfectly capable of tampering with application packages itself as part of normal operation. It's also a source of concern for both developers and users of "slimming" software when some of those app authors respond to tampering by displaying a message that looks like it's coming from the OS claiming that the app is "corrupted."

In that light, the black list should be viewed as a pro.

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Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 05:45 AM PDT