Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Freeware
Speed Freak - prioritize your active processes
by Jason Clarke Jul 16th 2007 at 2:00PM
Are you a tweaker? Do you like eking every last little bit of performance that you can out of your computer? If so, and you're on a Mac, Speed Freak is going to appeal to you. Speed Freak won't make your Mac faster, but what it will do is reprioritize your running processes to ensure that the frontmost program (the one you're actively using) gets more than its fair share of processor time. It's been our experience that some utilities like this go overboard and end up causing more problems than they solve. While being totally configurable, Speed Freak uses very reasonable settings out of the box.
To test it, we tried watching a YouTube video in Firefox while performing some very processor-intensive tasks in the background. Without Speed Freak, the video was choppy and stalled a few times. With it, it was smooth sailing.
Speed Freak is a free download.
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