Intel Mac :: 2008 Running Very Slow?
May 23, 2012
My 2008 iMac started running very slowly yesterday, taking ages to start up and showing the spinning wheel on the desktop for ages making it impossible to do anything. It particularly doesn't like running iTunes or Spotify and got worse when I plugged my iPod in. Another thing I can think of is I downloaded an album from iTunes yesterday and this seemed to coincide with it having a breakdown. Chrome is also running slow and I get frequent unresponsive script messages.
I'm running OS X 10.5.8 and have upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1. I recently installed the Flashback removal software.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jul 5, 2012
I have a 2008 MBP with 4gb of RAM. I upgraded via fresh install to Lion and ever since I've had this computer running literally 1/2 the speed it did on Snow Leopard. I've tried Googling and done everything everyone was saying to do but no changes. I also noticed that no matter what I do, when I run disk utility and check permissions it comes back with files that have problems but nothing I do will actually repair them. I'd also like to know if there is any way to turn off the absolutely dumb full screen apps and mission control and launch pad stuff as i'm sure that all the extra graphics requirements has to be hurting my performance a bit. I'm not sure what all the desktop developers have been smoking lately but last I checked a computer was not a phone and trying to mimic the interface is just dumb. There is nothing useful about anything they've done in Lion that I can see. It all looks cool but trying to use it on a daily basis it just stinks. Even the full-screen apps that I though would be cool stinks because it takes longer to swith from one to the other and you loose the top menu while in it which requires extra effort just to see what time it is.Â
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MBP - 4gb Ram post 2008, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Sep 8, 2010
I have a late 2008 13in. aluminum MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5.8. It used to run extremely well and software would open immediately but within the last 2 weeks software has been taking a long time to load and will sometimes freeze completely(no beachball) and other times the beachball appears. When it freezes without the beach ball it won't start moving again(I have waited for 20 minutes for it to start moving to see if it was just some incredible lag) so the only option is to push the power off button. Around the same time the internet began slowing down to an insane amount when using a browser(I have tried using both Firefox and Safari since this happened, usually I use Firefox.) to the point it takes 30-40 seconds to open a new web page. It isn't the internet as download speeds are the same as they were prior to the slowdown.
Not sure why this happened as I can't recall any big changes, unless it might be VMWare which I installed to run Windows around then(I don't believe the slow down happened immediately after VMWare install) however its rarely running so I'm not sure if that could be it since it isn't in use and doesn't show up on Activity monitor. Just in case it was VMWare, I put it on my external and deleted it from the computer but there has not been a noticeable difference since then.
Misc. info:
* Processor: 2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
* Memory 2 GB 1067 MHZ DDR3
* Free Memory: 62.5 GB
* Number of Cores: 2
* Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
I have tried Disk Utility (Verified & Repaired both permissions and normal), and a program called Onyx which I saw a lot of suggestions to use on the Apple site at times like this and nothing shows up as wrong. CPU usage according to Activity Monitor is normal and with a widget that monitors it, it never really goes above 40% and usually hangs out around 18% so I don't believe its that. I would say it was just age except that it just happened suddenly(it was literally from one day to the next).
There are no odd sounds coming from the machine and temperature is the same as it has always been.
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Got a 21.5 inch iMac desktop summer of 2010. I think it is the base model. All other info I can't get to on "about my mac" because my Mac is running like frozen molasses.
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iMac
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intel core duo
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), mackeeper
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8), logic studio
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), added RAM
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I'm using an iMac and find it difficult when running SketchUp/ Layout. It takes up to 5 to 6 mins to load a Layout file or it re-calculate and halt every few minutes when I am using SketchUp. While waiting for it's re-calculation or loading up, I can still use other softwares normally.Â
I wonder if it is one of the following problems: -Â
1. The softwares use massive RAM that my computer don't have? if yes, how can I allocate more RAM for these 2 softwares?Â
2. My computer is not powerful enough to run rendering softwares, like SketchUp/ Layout? Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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IMAC, Mac OS X (10.5)
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