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| DATE | Sep 18, 2006 |
| TICKET | #28335 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | Apple loading real slow, no network conn |
| CAT | Home/Business Network and/or Internet Connection |
| TYPE | Wireless Networking, WiFi |
| DESC | |
| DESC | |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (Intel) |
| MODEL | Apple iMac |
| PROC | 2.0 |
| RAM | 512 |
| DRIVE | 120 |
| NAME | Tom |
| USERNAME | tomax7 |
| TECHNICAL | Lots of Experience |
| ISSUE | Some Troubleshooting |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Apple loading real slow, no network conn
tomax7 - Sep 18, 2006 - 5:43 am
hi
Appreciate this site, definately will pass it onto my students and friends!
Just bought an Apple iMac 17" OSX Tiger duo back in February, wanting to learn it and for some reason my is loading real slow and same with any apps, or moving around the pinwheel beachball just keeps spinning.
The wife downloaded a couple of mp3's in August but not sure if this is around the same time or later our troubles showed up. It was working fine playing the music, so it wasn't immediate like "oh look this song crashed apple" type thing.
The system is definately acting like a virus. Can't get onto the local network either via wireless or ethernet. Is there a "safe mode" in OSX to check connections or recommended virus scanner?
cheers
tom
Appreciate this site, definately will pass it onto my students and friends!
Just bought an Apple iMac 17" OSX Tiger duo back in February, wanting to learn it and for some reason my is loading real slow and same with any apps, or moving around the pinwheel beachball just keeps spinning.
The wife downloaded a couple of mp3's in August but not sure if this is around the same time or later our troubles showed up. It was working fine playing the music, so it wasn't immediate like "oh look this song crashed apple" type thing.
The system is definately acting like a virus. Can't get onto the local network either via wireless or ethernet. Is there a "safe mode" in OSX to check connections or recommended virus scanner?
cheers
tom
- Sep 19, 2006 - 2:34 am
How much RAM do you have? I bought a 15" MacBook Pro with 1 GB and was not happy with the performance. I checked the memory allocations and saw that very little real RAM was left if I was running more than a couple of applications. Lots of paging to disk. I put in another 1GB and it's like a new super charged machine. That being said I suspect that running older apps under Rosetta was eating most of the available RAM causing all the delays.
vinko - Sep 19, 2006 - 4:31 am
Dear Tom,
My name is Vinko and I will attempt to assist you.
The reasons for your Mac running slow may be a few different possiblilities.
1. you may have many applications running and some of these are non-Universal applications. The latter means the applications are not specifically compiled for the Intel processor like that in your your iMac.
2. Spotlight may be running in the background indexing your hard drive. If your hard drive is close to full, this will reduce the efficencies of the Spotlight's indexing.
Both of these may cause your Mac to appear slow.
One way to improve your iMac's performance is to increase the RAM installed, but 1GB is quite sufficent for most Mac users' needs. Apple's minimum requirements for Mac OS 10.4 is 512MB of RAM and 1GB is what is recommended.
Another more cost effective way would be to turn off Spotlight indexing for your internal hard drive of your iMac. You can accomplish this very simply by adding your entire internal hard drive into the "Private" pane of your Spotlight preference.
Although to do it completely you will need to venture into Apple's Terminal application with an User account with Adminstrator rights.
Please be WARN that the Terminal application is capable of causing unrecoverable damage to your system.
Type the following into a Terminal window:
sudo mdutil -i off -E /Volumes/NameOfYourHardDrive
Entering your password when prompt.
I hope this helps.
-- Vinko
Thank you for using MacOSX.Com's free Mac support.
My name is Vinko and I will attempt to assist you.
The reasons for your Mac running slow may be a few different possiblilities.
1. you may have many applications running and some of these are non-Universal applications. The latter means the applications are not specifically compiled for the Intel processor like that in your your iMac.
2. Spotlight may be running in the background indexing your hard drive. If your hard drive is close to full, this will reduce the efficencies of the Spotlight's indexing.
Both of these may cause your Mac to appear slow.
One way to improve your iMac's performance is to increase the RAM installed, but 1GB is quite sufficent for most Mac users' needs. Apple's minimum requirements for Mac OS 10.4 is 512MB of RAM and 1GB is what is recommended.
Another more cost effective way would be to turn off Spotlight indexing for your internal hard drive of your iMac. You can accomplish this very simply by adding your entire internal hard drive into the "Private" pane of your Spotlight preference.
Although to do it completely you will need to venture into Apple's Terminal application with an User account with Adminstrator rights.
Please be WARN that the Terminal application is capable of causing unrecoverable damage to your system.
Type the following into a Terminal window:
sudo mdutil -i off -E /Volumes/NameOfYourHardDrive
Entering your password when prompt.
I hope this helps.
-- Vinko
Thank you for using MacOSX.Com's free Mac support.
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