all of a sudden my Powerbook just started to bog right down... opening the smallest programs takes forever, stuff is crashing, and there is a severe lag when you try and do anything other than look at the net in Safari. its almost feels like my PC when it gets infected spyware. what can i do to speed things up?
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Very slow PowerBook!!
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1. Check Activity Monitor for a process that it using a lot of CPU time. (/Applications/Utilities or via Spotlight)
2. How much RAM do you have?
3. How much hard drive space do you have left?
2. How much RAM do you have?
3. How much hard drive space do you have left?
Odly enough I am having somewhat similar issues with my powerbook. It is not the end of the world, but getting a bit bothersome to have things lagging significantly. To all the questions posed above I have done as suggested, well I actually did so prior to because they are all good advice that I already knew of. I guess best thing I can add is repair permissions, perhaps do a minor clean of your system cache and shut down for just a little while to let the powerbook take a nap.