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CPU Speed Accelerator
CPU Speed Accelerator 6.0.0.0.0
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Increase the speed of some application processes.   Shareware ($39)
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    AlphaOmega Software
CPU Speed Accelerator ... You want to increase the power of your Macintosh? At very low cost? You want to increase by 20% to 30% the speed of your applications without spending money in new hardware? You want to automatically always make the most of the power of your CPU to the foreground application you are using?

Then CPU Speed Accelerator is what you need!

CPU Speed Accelerator allows you to drastically increase the CPU allocated to your foreground applications to make the most of the power of your Macintosh.
  • It can increase by up to 30% the power of your
What's New
Version 6.0.0.0.0:
  • A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • The management of the Login Items has been improved.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later



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CPU Speed Accelera... User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 6.x:
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Dirty_Hairy reviewed on 16 Apr 2012
I agree with ipoopstore. What a bunch of losers and trolls with the ignorant comments and reviews.

I couldn't even begin to guess how many tools are front-ends for Terminal commands. But no one is whining like spoiled children about them.

I read a comment recently that sums up the losers and their hate.

"People pay for conveniences like valet parking and hair cuts. They could have parked their own car and slapped a bowl on their head to cut their hair to avoid paying the fees/tips. The same logic applies to Terminal and Mac tools. You can do it yourself or you can pay for the convenience of a tool to do it for you. The choices are up to each person. And I doubt the trolls can comprehend the fact there will always be a market for conveniences or the simple fact that there are Mac users with handicaps. My aunt can hardly type in her own name because her hands are too arthritic and the pain is excruciating. She wears a holstered sidearm with a hair trigger and I'd bet she'd shoot any troll between the eyes telling her to use Terminal instead of software that does the same."

Too bad his aunt couldn't find the retards that gave this a bad rep for their own ignorance.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
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iPoopStore reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
I don't what all the hoopla from the trolls below is all about. Seriously kiddies, get a life or go whack it to some porno.

This app does what it is intended to do, and that is to give the front most app full focus. No scam here geniuses. Who care's it's a GUI front-end for a Terminal command. How many Mac tools are not? LOL

I do have one complaint. The price of this tool is far too much. It should be competitive with App Tamer.

5 stars for everything but 1 star for value.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]

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burypromote
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iPoopStore replied on 14 Apr 2012
Damn auto-correct swiped a word above.LOL

"I don't know" what all the hoopla
burypromote
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Lvdoc replied on 14 Apr 2012
Would you please share that Terminal command? Thanks.
burypromote

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Umaromc replied on 15 Apr 2012
Lvdoc, open Activity Monitor and note the Process ID (PID) number for the app you want the CPU to give attention to. By default all processes have the same 0 (zero) level priority.

Open terminal and type;

sudo renice -20 ProcessIDHere

-20 is the highest priority a program can be given. You'll also be prompted for your administrator password because of the Super User DO (sudo) command (just like this app wouldn't work otherwise).

This app is akin to the free Speed Freak; http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/utils.html

Unfortunately that hasn't been updated in awhile, but its free and does the same thing.
burypromote

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Lvdoc replied on 15 Apr 2012
Thanks. Actually, I use SpeedFreak, but as you've noted, it hasn't been updated. It still works in Lion, but it requires finding access to the Keychain Scripting bundle that's in the "Scripting Additions" folder. I used the one I had in Snow Leopard, and I found another one in a google search. But that's kind of a hassle, and I don't know how all will work in Mountain Lion. I'm not sure I'd want to do the Terminal command for every single application. Any chance there's a universal command that automatically makes the frontmost application the fastest/priority?
burypromote
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+4

Ishanb reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
All this does is prioritize CPU cycles to the foreground app. So, for example, if you render something in Photoshop, and then decide to check your mail with your app of choice, Photoshop will slow down drastically and increase your rendering times accordingly. If you only run one app at a time (+Finder), you'll make the Finder sluggish. This is a scam, folks, and it's easy enough to accomplish the same thing using the Terminal app, part of the Mac OS.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
+4

+4
Rjmorita commented on 14 Apr 2012
A whopping $39 for this? I hope you're joking. Sorry but I'll pass. I tried it on my Mac Mini with Lion 10.7.3 and the program won't even run.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
+5

+169

Gryphonent reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
Snake Oil... I'd be surprised if this makes it into the AppStore. And $39??? Come on...
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]

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burypromote

+189
Umaromc replied on 15 Apr 2012
Its AlphaOmega Software... what should we expect?
burypromote
+3

+10

MetroMrX reviewed on 14 Apr 2012
Crap-ware is the correct phrase to use.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
+4

+87
Bdkennedy1 commented on 14 Apr 2012
If this weren't posted on this site I would have thought it was a joke. Unfortunately some schmuck will hand over their money.
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
+4

+18
Sherlockbones commented on 14 Apr 2012
I'm still laughing at the screenshot of it running on a PPC mac. Seriously.

If you're going to try to get people to pay for this and you say it's been updated for Lion you'd think the screenshot would show it running on relatively current hardware
[Version 6.0.0.0.0]


burypromote
+1

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Aargl reviewed on 02 Sep 2010
:-D I had a good laugh reading all the posts here! Looks like the dev has a lot of enemies! :-D
Well, I'm afraid I must disagree with the gentlemen that wrote before me: I may have a strange computer but it works for me!
Not with every app (VLC is stuttering, so in fact, an exclude list of apps wouldn't be a bad idea), not a 200% acceleration.
Indeed, you can't even talk of acceleration, but using it with my Digidesign ProTools - that was stopping playing probably because of a conflict with some background app - made it play flawlessly.
I compared it with Renicer and the result, in my ProTools business as in Apple's Activity Monitor is clear: Renicer wasn't doing antything while CPU Speed did.
[Version 5.2.-2147483648d-2147483648]


burypromote
+8

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Thomas1977 reviewed on 10 Feb 2010
This is a joke, right?
The dev for has read the book 'How to rip off people without doing anything'.

Shame on you
[Version 5.1.-2147483648]


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Lookky rated on 14 Apr 2012

[Version 6.0.0.0.0]



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Bdkennedy1 rated on 14 Apr 2012

[Version 6.0.0.0.0]




j-d rated on 22 Feb 2012

[Version 5.2.-2147483648d-2147483648]




Deserthillbilly rated on 19 Feb 2012

[Version 5.2.-2147483648d-2147483648]


Downloads:53,241
Version Downloads:1,457
Type:Utilities : Optimizers
License:Shareware
Date:14 Apr 2012
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $39.00
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CPU Speed Accelerator ... You want to increase the power of your Macintosh? At very low cost? You want to increase by 20% to 30% the speed of your applications without spending money in new hardware? You want to automatically always make the most of the power of your CPU to the foreground application you are using?

Then CPU Speed Accelerator is what you need!

CPU Speed Accelerator allows you to drastically increase the CPU allocated to your foreground applications to make the most of the power of your Macintosh.
  • It can increase by up to 30% the power of your Macintosh.
  • It automatically detects the foreground application you are using.
  • It redirects unused power of your CPU to the foreground application.
  • You can set the percentage of acceleration between 0% and 100%.
  • It tells the Process Manager of the UNIX layer of Mac OS X to always assign the maximum priority to the foreground application.
  • It appears in the right side of the menu bar.
  • It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use.
  • It is available in Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and many other languages.
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