Software :: Imac (1.5 Years Old) Operates Very Slowly?
May 1, 2008
i can't seem to quit some programs normally (mostly iphoto and firefox, sometimes entourage) without forcing quit.
is there some sort of disk cleanup i can do (before this i had PCs)? or is there some sort of easy fix (deleting extra copies of photos, etc) that i can do?
i do have a lot of photos on the computer (they're in a folder and also in iphoto) and some videos, but the videos from my video camera are all stored on my external drive.
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Jul 3, 2009
I'm new to Mac. Two weeks ago I bought a new iMac (24" 2.66 Ghz Mac OS X 10.5.7) at the Apple store along with the Elgato Eye TV Hybrid tuner. I use the TV function every day, but today it shut off and will not work. I received an error message telling me that Eye TV will not work in a 1.1 USB port and that I should plug the TV tuner in a 2.0 USB port. It's my understanding that all the iMac ports are 2.0.
I tried calling Apple Care Support but they are closed for the 3 day holiday. : (
Any idea what the problem is or what I can do to get this to work? I am using the cables that came with they Eye TV tuner. I've restarted the iMac a couple times and the same thing happens.
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May 6, 2012
I have an external Lacie 1 TB hard disk which used to operate at USB2 speeds, but ever since I upgraded to my my Intel Mac Pro (from a G5) it only operates at USB1 speeds regardless of which USB port I plug it into. When I open up System Profiler, it reports "speed up to 12 Mb/sec" which of course is only USB1.1. It used to show "speed up to 480 Mb/sec". Do I need to reformat it something? Can I force it to connect at USB2 speeds?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 x 2.66 Dual Core
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Dec 2, 2009
On pressing the power button on the back of my brand new iMac i5 (Bought in store on Nov 21st), the white screen appears after 5-7 seconds and then the boot time is incredibly fast since I have an SSD installed. But I'm disturbed now with the fact that the white screen takes such a long time and I was wondering if anyone else had a similar issue?
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Feb 16, 2010
I installed iStat 2 days ago and just yesterday I noticed that my HD space slowly decreases; not by a lot. For example, yesterday it said that I had used only 12.06 GB of space. A little later it said 12.07 GB and then 12.08 or 12.09 (I don't remember which one). Today it started in the low 13's and then it went to 13.07 and then 13.09. Currently, it's at 13.17 GB used.
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Mar 24, 2010
Mac seems to run very slowly. Mail takes for ever to show my mail and to make changes some time it quits automatically. And send a report to mac. But nothing has change so far. How can I delete a program/application for example TV, want it out of my hard drive. or any other download. How can I see Power Point on my mac...
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Mar 24, 2012
This problem started after a power surge a few weeks ago. The surge protector fried, but seemed to save the computer in the process. Symptoms are:If the Mac goes to sleep, the fans eventually go in hyperspeed mode and it's impossible to wake.Boot time is over 6 minutes. 1.5 minutes on the gray Apple, then 5 minutes on blue screen.In verbose mode, I get some IOKitWaitQuiet error just before the blue screenI repaired permissions, checked the disk with Disk Utility, and zapped the PRAM. Here's the console report of a restart. The blue screen was between 8 and 8:05.
3/24/12 7:59:15 PM com.apple.loginwindow[39] Shutdown NOW!
3/24/12 7:59:15 PM com.apple.loginwindow[39] System shutdown time has arrived
3/24/12 7:59:15 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[34] Stopping Adobe Version Cue
3/24/12 7:59:15 PM com.apple.SystemStarter[34] Stopping Adobe Version Cue ...
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Sep 11, 2014
Every since I upgraded my OS to 10.9, my performance has been going downhill. Now, even though I have reformatted my hard drive and have not even put any new data on it, it takes 45 minutes to restart and 25 minutes for me to open the window to write this message. Below is my system info. Why my system seems to have slowed down so much. You can see there is nothing on the hard drive to slow it down.
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Nov 27, 2010
My 3-month old iMac was responding very slowly when I used the latest version of Safari. So I forced quit the program. From then on, whenever I turned on the iMac, it would get stuck at the Apple logo start up screen. I had to unplug the power since the machine is getting very hot after 15 mins.
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Dec 30, 2009
I have no idea what's wrong. I tried reinstalling os x with no luck. 21.5" 3.06GHz 4GB ram 500GB hd iChat keeps disconnecting, pages and youtube vids load extremely slow(about 1min to load this post page).
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Oct 19, 2010
This may sound like a dumb question, but I'm a bit confused on computer speeds. I know a higher clock speed will be faster, but...
Lets say the Intel model from two years ago was a 2.8 Octo. For single threaded tasks, would a brand new 2.8 Quad be faster? Why or why not?
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May 21, 2012
Every email I have ever sent just showed up in my sent box. I can't delete them. What's up?
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IMAC, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Dec 9, 2006
I have had my iBook for a good 4 years now. I have a 1.2ghz G4 ppc running Tiger and it is starting to run slow. I noticed that videos will now pause if something else is running or downloading. This never happened before. I was thinking about reinstalling my OS but would like to avoid that. Does anyone have this same problem or have any tricks to speed this up again?
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Aug 5, 2010
It dawned on me that iSight resolution has been stuck for years, and I think its time to complain, and see if someone hears me. lol
I have come to expect innovation, not just faster processors o more powerful graphics cards and this seems to be the trend right now.
And I agree when people say "what do you use your laptop for that requires more than an i7?"
Nothing, but that desn't mean we can't get a better isight, usb 3 or even slight cosmetic changes. I think it would be nice to see a little bit more progress on new macbook pros. Back in the day powerbook were known for their advances from the last generation, like powerbook DVI or powerbook gigabit and stuff like that. Now it's just mid 2010, late 2010... Seems a little bit dull.
Anyways, im not bitter, just wanted to know if anyone else has thought about HD iSight and shares my point of view.
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Apr 30, 2012
Will apple replace or exchange this for me? It has never been abused, I treat it with so much care. I didn't even think about getting the extended warranty...I expect my computer to last longer than 2 years. Feel really let down by this.
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MacBook
Pro
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Dec 3, 2014
I take photos on my IPhone 4S and pay to have extra storage on ICloud, yet nowhere can I find my photos. Entire years of photos are nowhere to be found.
If ICloud doesn't store photos (which it claims to do: "iCloud gives you access to your music, photos, contacts, calendars, documents, and more from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Windows computer") then what is the point of ICloud?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 7.1
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Oct 15, 2010
A friend was just given a PowerBook G4 in perfect condition (seemingly). It has just been sitting on a shelf for several years and worked fine before it was shelved.
Now when she plugs it in, the orange light on the cord lights up orange, but when she tries to boot the machine, nothing happens. I mean nothing.
Is there something simple that this could be? Wondering if there is a little battery inside that is needed that could have gone dead over the years of idle sitting, or something like that. I just don't know PowerBooks very well.
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Jul 27, 2010
Apple Battery Charger - batteries last 10 years?
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Apr 9, 2012
Does Apple provide replacement batteries for out of warranty early 2008 Macbooks? Just wondering as my old MacBook is giving a "replace soon" or similar message under the battery status also would it be worth the cost to replace it considering its age?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), White plastic early 2008 model
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Oct 14, 2010
I have office loaded on my Mac. I work with a variety of spreadsheets and different applications like Open Office, Access, Excel. Most of my data comes from applications on the PC side. When using Office for Mac, I open a new Excel spread sheet and copy and paste data from one of the other applications. So I have a column of dates in Open Office, I copy the date column and paste into Office for Mac Excel.
When I do this the dates change by plus or minus 4 years. So if I move data labeled 10/8/2010 when I paste it into Office for Mac Excel I get 10/8/2014 or 10/8/2006. Sometimes I even get a different month or day along with the plus or minus 4 years on the year. When I move the data into Office for PC Excel I don't have the problem. The dates copy over just fine. I am not using date formulas or functions. It is simply dates put into the column that I am trying to copy into a single spreadsheet.
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Jun 6, 2009
an ssd drive, preferably 128+gb
2gb 533 mhz ram
22" monitor
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Apr 15, 2009
I ran out of hard drive space. 7 gigs left out of 85. So I wiped and reinstalled, to try to speed things up, get rid of any fragmentation, etc. I have yet to install Photoshop, and I think I may have a few .plist files left to transfer over, but right now, with ALL of my data back on it, I have 35 gigs free. That's 28 more then I did before.
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Dec 26, 2008
Dear members I'm having problems with safari being very slow and i'm trying to resolved this problem.
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Jul 9, 2009
I'm using a 2.4GHz MacBook, and Safari 4 takes 20-25 seconds too open up... Does it take that long for you? It's weird because no other application that I have takes even close to that long to open.
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Dec 11, 2009
What the heck is that?
The speed of hard driver is so slowly
mbp985 15 (mid 2009)
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Mar 24, 2010
Youtube works extremely fast while NHL Gamecenter and Hulu drag along. Netflix also runs perfectly fine, and I can download at a consistent 5MB/S on Itunes. Also, my 5 year old PC plays Gamecenter and Hulu just fine. I have the latest version of flash player.
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Feb 11, 2012
my mail app is very slowly since the lion update 10.7.3 I need mor than 5 minutes to synchronisize my exchange account via mail 5.2.the same exchange mailbox is working fine on my iPhone/iPad.
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Feb 12, 2012
My macbook is only a year old, and out of nowhere has started to run really slowly and the rainbow wheel of death is appearing more and more. I have 62gb available (when I opened finder this was at the bottom of the folder), and 2GB of memory when I checked 'about this mac'. I dont understand why this is happening, I have Sophos Anti Virus and Iantivirus they say their are no threats, I update my software regularly. Am I missing something? Currently I have openoffice running with one document open and I am using google chrome.
Info:MacBook
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Apr 2, 2012
My Macbook is running slowly. Is MacKeeper a good utility?
Info:MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 23, 2012
I have installed all of the most recent updates the macbook pro was purchased new Nov, 2011.It is currently running many times slower than my macbook that is 4+ years old.The HD is not close to being filled.I tried installing the apple patch for Java bug.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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