I'd like to share with the group the final status of the 'slow iMac saga',
kind of year-end closure.
First and foremost, Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate and/or enjoy)
and a Happy New Year.
Many, many, many thanks to all (Jim, Bruce, Valter, Fabian, Clark, Harry,
Dan - very knowledgeable
At 4:17 PM -0800 11/25/2013, Clark Martin wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:54 PM, N. Shani wrote:
- What *in particular* is slow? Everything. Trying to launch any
application
is a long wait. Didn't use to be so. Opening another tab in Safari, saving a
document, opening a document, you name it
On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com
wrote:
or general *system* maintenance use OnyX, perhaps once a month or so, at
most, to run the three system maintenance scripts (daily, weekly, monthly).
And if your system is running slowly, use it to clear the kernel, system, and
Greetings,
All of the other ideas presented are very solid, however the first thing
that I would do is get a copy of Onyx and run the tab which shows a
Hammer called Automation. Start with the default settings and if that
doesn't speed up your iMac then select all of the items in Automation.
At 7:38 AM -0500 11/24/2013, N. Shani wrote:
- late 2006 17 [iMac]
- OS is 10.6.8, with current updates
- stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full
- 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x 512 MB, so one 512 MB stick was exchanged
with 2 GB stick)
what is causing the above to slow down.
- monitoring active CPU
Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow
down.
The particulars are:
- late 2006 17 model 5,1
- OS is 10.6.8, with current updates
- stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full
- 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x 512 MB, so one 512 MB stick was exchanged with 2
GB stick)
- monitoring active
On Nov 24, 2013, at 4:38 AM, N. Shani nshani...@gmail.com wrote:
Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow
down.
The particulars are:
- late 2006 17 model 5,1
- OS is 10.6.8, with current updates
- stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full
- 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x
Il giorno 24/11/13 13.38, N. Shani ha scritto:
Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow
down.
The particulars are:
- late 2006 17 model 5,1
- OS is 10.6.8, with current updates
Apart from Jim's excellent troubleshoot guide, the only things that comes
off
On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Jim Scott wrote:
Next, I run Drive Genius 3, the utility used by Geniuses in Apple stores. I
boot from the DG3 disk and run the hard drive scan test, making sure to ask
it to reallocate any bad sectors found. Then I run the Disk Integrity tests
for both read
