My late 2013 late imac running slow after installing lastest version of os everything seem to load up so w like a example protools maschine studio n other applications I shave 32GB of ram I don't know what causing it was working great before the new OS.
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Late 2012 imac running slow
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Worth having a look at the activity monitor to see whether anything's consuming CPU. I'm running on a late 2012 with the latest OS and performance is fine, including Sibelius and Logic
Good time for an SSD upgrade:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imac-27-inch-late-2013-hdd-ssd-upgrade.2122595/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imac-27-inch-late-2013-hdd-ssd-upgrade.2122595/
It's all about the SSD. You get that, it will feel brand new. I installed a SSD in my parent's 2007 iMac and it feels new.
Does the iMac have a platter-based hard drive inside?
If so, that's why it's slow.
Fastest, easiest, safest way to upgrade it:
Plug in an external USB SSD, and set it up to be the boot drive.
In a few minutes, it will seem like a new world...
If so, that's why it's slow.
Fastest, easiest, safest way to upgrade it:
Plug in an external USB SSD, and set it up to be the boot drive.
In a few minutes, it will seem like a new world...
While I appreciate everybody's enthusiasm for SSDs and I admit, they will make the OP's computer go faster. It doesn't address the problem they came in with. If your car suddenly loses performance, the mechanic doesn't say that you could fix that by swapping to a Ferrari. The OP said that the computer only started going slowly after the latest OS upgrade. This implies to me that there's an easier fix, perhaps something as simple as rolling back to the previous release.
I would try installing the 10.13.6 combo update first, that might fix your problem already (assuming that you are indeed running High Sierra).
1. Open a web browser
2. Go to https://www.google.com
3. Search for 10.13.6 combo update
4. Profit
Honestly, I never thought I'd still be explaining the fundamental basics of the world wide web in 2018
IIRC El Capitan was still usable without an SSD. It was with Sierra that sh*t hit the fan hard.
Just recently I've installed El Capitan on an iMac Mid-2007 (2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) for a friend (or rather her teenage daughter) and was positively surprised how snappy it still felt.
Just recently I've installed El Capitan on an iMac Mid-2007 (2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) for a friend (or rather her teenage daughter) and was positively surprised how snappy it still felt.
Even High Sierra is tolerable with a desktop hard drive if it's a brand new install. My 2010 iMac with High Sierra has a hard drive. No SSD. Mind you, that thing has 12 GB RAM though, and most of the time it's just used as a monitor.
To me performance started to lag on hard drives around 10.9 Mavericks or even 10.8 Yosemite and gradually got worse. But it was always much better after a clean install.
Also, the feel is much worse with a laptop hard drive than a desktop hard drive.
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El Capitan is our friend!
The only thing I miss from highest exulted Sierra is a better screen of movie streaming and pages simultaneously saving files on all the devices. But I do not miss the constant spinning ball.
Personally, I think elcapitan has good features h Sierra omitted like split screen and non Siri.
The only thing I miss from highest exulted Sierra is a better screen of movie streaming and pages simultaneously saving files on all the devices. But I do not miss the constant spinning ball.
Personally, I think elcapitan has good features h Sierra omitted like split screen and non Siri.