What is the real utility of this software? - steve.uk1

Well i have a 60gb drive and theres only about 11gb free, 3gb of which came from using the program. I have not had any problems at all with my applications and trust it enogth to not bother with the backup archive (all my important documents, photos etc are backed up anyways.) As far as it speeding the applications up, I think it does speed up some but not by a lot. I would agree with you that if you dont need the space dont bother. But the app does what it says on the tin. :)

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Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 10:17 AM PDT

What is the real utility of this software? - TimPL

Look at it this way: you slim and backup an app. You'll know very quickly, if not immediately, if the slimmed version works as you'd expect. If it does, then delete the backup. If it doesn't then you've got an easy and quick way to restore it. If something does go wrong after you've deleted the backup, and which you failed to spot when checking, then you can always re-install from the dmg, CD or whatever.
I have used Xslimmer for ages now and have yet to suffer any problem whatsoever with any app. In fact, when installing a new app or upgrading an old one, then I drop it straight onto the Xslimmer interface and it installs / upgrades in one go. This app. can even slim itself. I wouldn't be without it and no, I don't work for the developer!
Tim.

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Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 11:34 AM PDT

What is the real utility of this software? - Greg_Weston_572

Some people running OS X have hard drives that are smaller than what the strictly need and not simple to replace (consider, for example, notebook users). For them, being able to recover even a single GB is a great win.

There is absolutely nothing to the idea that a trimmed app will run faster than the original. It's entirely placebo. For fat/thin binaries, the difference is literally a few cycles at launch and for single vs. multiple languages it'd be a couple of cycles any time a resource is loaded from disk (against the uniform performance hit of the disk access).

If this tool does what I think it does - wraps a couple of free command-line tools already on every stock OS X install in a nice GUI - there's no inherent danger from running it on normal apps. The only troublesome thing is the handful of app authors who check at runtime to see if their app has been modified and refuse to run if it has. You also wouldn't want to trim the system libraries on an Intel Mac because you'll lose support for running PPC apps.

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Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 05:33 AM PDT