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Author:  big_D [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:21 am ]
Post subject:  Slow iMac 24"
My iMac has slowed down a lot lately, it seems to struggle to open iTunes, iPhoto and Firefox, opening Office is a pain and it can't keep up with typing.

Once Firefox has loaded, it seems okay, not sparking, but fast enough.

Is Snow Leopard really getting so bloated, or is it likely to be something wrong? I bought it with Tiger and upgraded to Leopard and then SL, is it time to do a complete re-install of Snow Leopard or is there something I can do to improve performance? (I've run Onyx over the machine).
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
No it it must be something else. Snow Leopard is improvement. You might consider backing up and reinstalling.
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
What's your free hard drive space like on your startup volume?
Do you have any items loading at login that shouldn't be there?
Are there any peripherals that could be misbehaving during the startup procedure (I'm specifically thinking printers and scanners but anything attached could be causing a problem).
How does Disk Utility report the health of the drive?
Does the machine shut down correctly?

Just a few things to consider before doing a fresh install.

Mark
Author:  big_D [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
timark_uk wrote:
What's your free hard drive space like on your startup volume?

137GB from 250GB free.

timark_uk wrote:
Do you have any items loading at login that shouldn't be there?

Not that I am aware of...

timark_uk wrote:
Are there any peripherals that could be misbehaving during the startup procedure (I'm specifically thinking printers and scanners but anything attached could be causing a problem).

Nope, a WD MyBook for TimeMachine, an Apple keyboard, MS mouse and my iPhone...

timark_uk wrote:
How does Disk Utility report the health of the drive?

"The volume Beatrice HD appears to be OK."

timark_uk wrote:
Does the machine shut down correctly?

Yes.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
Have you tried any disk utilities? You never know it could be a permissions problem. I literally run through every test possible to eliminate every possible problem.
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
try turning spotlight off
system preferences > personal > spotlight
untick all the search options then place the system HDD into the privacy section

see if that gives any improvement …
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
Have you got the WD disk utilities installed? I've got a WD drive and they gave me no end of trouble. All they did was allow me to change the readout on the e-ink display so I uninstalled them and everything was fine again.
Author:  big_D [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
There are no WD utilities and no display...

I'll try a repair.
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
Sorry but LOL, this could so easily be a Windows thread if you changed a couple of proper nouns here and there :lol:

Actually apart from the OS, just the one: Spotlight -> Indexing

I would check MyBook - how does it connect exactly? Mine is as slow as a dog under Windows, and slow network drives can have bad side effects.
Author:  big_D [ Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
It is an original 250GB USB one.

Replaced it with a 1TB USB drive this week (also a 1TB E-SATA drive on my Sony notebook).

It took hours to restore the iMac, because of the crippled USB 2.0 interfaces on early Intel iMacs! :evil:

Restoring the same data onto my Sony took around 12 minutes!
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
I've had a couple of sluggishness issues lately. Repairing permissions helped, it didn't cure it, but it is certainly more sprightly now.
Author:  Nick [ Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Slow iMac 24"
I've not had any trouble - except for Chrome. I should probably reinstall it at some point.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
You should probably sell it to me and buy a 27" iMac.
That'll cure it.
Author:  big_D [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
ProfessorF wrote:
You should probably sell it to me and buy a 27" iMac.
That'll cure it.

Hmm, tempting, but I bought a Sony Vaio laptop a week before I got my redundancy notice! :evil:

The first part might happen, but the second part is very unlikely, unless something crops up soon... ;)
Author:  E. F. Benson [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Slow iMac 24"
Have you used Activity Monitor? you can see all running processes and the amount of cpu use as a percentage. Quite useful in these situations.
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