Is my Mac getting old?

[pilkenton]

I play a few games on Facebook. While I am logged on, I'll open another window to look at other things. Lately, If I'm logged onto a Facebook game, I can't watch YouTube videos-and vice-versa. It's only recently started doing that.There is nothing on my start-up, and I have only a few apps. I still have over 400 GBs still available.

 

[r0k]

I play a few games on Facebook. While I am logged on, I'll open another window to look at other things. Lately, If I'm logged onto a Facebook game, I can't watch YouTube videos-and vice-versa. It's only recently started doing that.There is nothing on my start-up, and I have only a few apps. I still have over 400 GBs still available.

Yes your G4 Mini is getting old. No wait. You didn't say you had a G4 Mini. What Mac do you have and what OS are you running? How much RAM do you have? Chrome uses a lot of memory, especially if you leave dozens of tabs open.

BTW, watching youtube videos is often problematic because of: flash OR your isp OR free memory on your Mac Or your browser OR your browser plugins OR flash. (flash is twice as likely to cause slowdowns so I listed it twice) Are you watching them in the adobe flash player or in the html5 player? Is your browser Safari, Chrome, or something else? Do you have a lot of browser add ons? Is the Facebook game flash based?

 

[pilkenton]

Sorry-I have a 2009 Mac.

 

[kelon111]

Sorry-I have a 2009 Mac.

That still doesn't tell us the amount of RAM you have or any other important factors.

A 2009 Mac should be fine for basic tasks. It's not too old...
You just aren't telling us everything we need to know.

 

[thekev]

Sorry-I have a 2009 Mac.

Nothing you mentioned goes beyond the capabilities of a 2009 Mac of any type. Sometimes the older ones get sluggish with the newest OS, but the differences between OSX versions aren't that interesting.

 

[Kissaragi]

Does it do everything you want it to? If so, no its not.