Hey guys
I've had this iMac 17" Core2Duo 2.0GHz w/ 1GB RAM for about 2 and a half years now, and recently it began running slow. I'm not sure if im overreacting, and its supposed to be this slow at its age, but its really starting to bug me. There's all kinds of little slowdowns and beachballs that i've recently been seeing. Safari freezes almost 2 out of the 3 times i try to create a new tab, and it just doesn't seem as fast as it should. Especially now with Snow Leopard and this freezing dock problem i'm having.
Well, I could only think of two things i could do to speed it up. I never really did a clean install (maybe I did going from Tiger to Leopard), but the other 3 times (and when upgrading to SL), i just did a restore from Time Machine. So i'm guessing its best to do a clean erase and install on my hard drive and manually drag my files back into place. The second thing I plan to do is upgrade the RAM (max is 3GB), i'm sure that will make it faster.
My question is: Is their anything else I could do? and will this get rid of my random freezes/slowdowns that i'm having? It just seems like my computer isn't running very "mac-like" recently.
thanks
I've had this iMac 17" Core2Duo 2.0GHz w/ 1GB RAM for about 2 and a half years now, and recently it began running slow. I'm not sure if im overreacting, and its supposed to be this slow at its age, but its really starting to bug me. There's all kinds of little slowdowns and beachballs that i've recently been seeing. Safari freezes almost 2 out of the 3 times i try to create a new tab, and it just doesn't seem as fast as it should. Especially now with Snow Leopard and this freezing dock problem i'm having.
Well, I could only think of two things i could do to speed it up. I never really did a clean install (maybe I did going from Tiger to Leopard), but the other 3 times (and when upgrading to SL), i just did a restore from Time Machine. So i'm guessing its best to do a clean erase and install on my hard drive and manually drag my files back into place. The second thing I plan to do is upgrade the RAM (max is 3GB), i'm sure that will make it faster.
My question is: Is their anything else I could do? and will this get rid of my random freezes/slowdowns that i'm having? It just seems like my computer isn't running very "mac-like" recently.
thanks