First carry out a Time Machine Backup to an external drive (this is essential) I would say it is almost certainly the Hard Drive which is failing.
Looking at the system activity monitor, I'm often finding the CPU and HDD just idling / no activity when there should be.ĭoes anyone have any ideas as to what the rout cause of this slowness might be, and if there is anything I can do to address it or at least make things better to buy some time until I can afford a replacement mac? I have done hardware checks, and the hard drive, memory and everything all checks out as good. Repairing permissions does not help.īacking up my files to a external hard drive and doing a complete clean install of Mac OS results in the same issue right from the get go. If I run a system scan everything comes to a crawl.Īntivirus says there is no virus / adware. The mouse will be come periodically unresponsive and every last program decides to not respond when trying to reboot and has to be force quit. I can type, get the spinning pinwheel and the text doesn't appear for 30 seconds. Chrome is always "Waiting on the cache".Īfter a couple days of uptime my mac slows down the point where everything gives a spinning pinwheel. Lately browsing the internet has become incredibly slow. If I right click on say a image in Chrome and pick save as I get a spinning pinwheel and it takes a couple minutes for the "Save As" dialog to open. Just went on a big vacation two months back so I'm hoping I can push of spending money / buying a new Mac until I get next years tax return.Īfter booting I find that launch pad takes 20 minutes or more to show my applications and not just say "Loading Applications" Hoping I can find some advice on how to get it more tolerable for the time being until I can buy a new Mac.
My iMac has been running very slow the last 3 years and it's only getting worse.
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