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Sooo Slow.

tico24

tico24

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Jun 17, 2007
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Eastleigh, UK
I have the base level 1.6 air. Bought it only last week.
It has been extremely slow since day 1. I have simply installed firefox, istat menus and neo office. Everything else is what came with the mac.

I have reinstalled Leopard three times now in an attempt to stop the thing being so damn slow. It takes 5 minutes to boot up, another 15 minutes for the menu bar to go from invisible to appearing as normal.

According to istat, the RAM is at 90% of usage as soon as I boot. The CPU hardly seems to be used at all.

Is anyone else experiencing any issues akin to this or have I received a dud? Does anyone know of any log files I could look at to investigate why the hell my air is running so slowly? My 14 days is up this Saturday and I'm seriously considering returning this bad boy.
 
Take it back immediately.

Don't wait, that is not normal behaviour.
 
yep...something isn't right in Appleville, return that and get a new one. you will not be disappointed
 
After some investigation, it appears that a process called dmnotifyd keeps getting stuck. This appears to be something to do with .mac

Only problem is, I can't load up the .mac settings to turn it off.

Any ideas?
 
Ah thanks.
Managed to turn it off and for the first time ever it runs like a dream.

However, now I can't sync my settings across from my other macs.
 
I've only had my MBA for about a day now, but I haven't noticed anything wonky with my .Mac syncing.

I don't know how much effort you want to put into it, but maybe reinstalling OS X? :confused:
 
aristobrat said:
I've only had my MBA for about a day now, but I haven't noticed anything wonky with my .Mac syncing.

I don't know how much effort you want to put into it, but maybe reinstalling OS X? :confused:
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The OP says they have done it 3x.
 
elppa said:
The OP says they have done it 3x.
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Sorry, didn't remember that this morning when I replied. Thanks.

Maybe it's something specific with the data synced on .Mac? Maybe enable syncing with only a few things at a time and see if you can figure out component is giving it the problem? Or just reset all data on .Mac from a computer that doesn't have a problem syncing with it.
 
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