I am not sure what is going on with my Macbook Air but it has been sloeing down to a crawl recently. I have Sierra or 10.12.6 and a mid 2012 iMac 1.7Ghsz i5). Ive never had this issue before but for the last twod ays this has been happening. I thought it was Opera at first because I have a lot of tabs open but it so,etimes does it on safari as well with almost no tabs running. I am thinking it could be steam or steam helper or I have some type of malware virus. The weird thing is this occurs after I browse for about 10 minutes:
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You said that "this" happens, but you don't really say what "this" is, and the video has nothing obvious showing.
I am guessing that you have a little beach-balling going on, as that's the only thing that is noticeable in your video.
Your Activity Monitor can sometimes help you decide what process could be contributing to that condition.
But, a recent slowdown might mean that you have a problem with your hard drive. How full is your drive?
A 2012 iMac will likely have a spinning hard drive, which can cause that spinning ball, just because it is a spinning hard drive on a (fairly) modern version of OS X. Replacing a spinning hard drive with an SSD can make all the difference that you need.
I am guessing that you have a little beach-balling going on, as that's the only thing that is noticeable in your video.
Your Activity Monitor can sometimes help you decide what process could be contributing to that condition.
But, a recent slowdown might mean that you have a problem with your hard drive. How full is your drive?
A 2012 iMac will likely have a spinning hard drive, which can cause that spinning ball, just because it is a spinning hard drive on a (fairly) modern version of OS X. Replacing a spinning hard drive with an SSD can make all the difference that you need.
I think it is an ssd though. Not sure. WIll check but I believe it is either 64GB or 128GB SSD. Didnt the 2012 ones come with ssds? The AIrs?
All MBAirs came with SSDs, except the original Air in 2008. The first couple of years, came with a tiny, slow hard drive standard, but alway had a SSD that you could order. After those first models, the spinning hard drive was dropped, and only SSDs after that.
Yes, the 2012 iMac was available with SSD, as a custom order, either 256GB or 512GB; but normally would come standard with a spinning hard drive, or maybe a fusion drive.
A Fusion drive also has an SSD component.
If you have a 256GB SSD, maybe after 8 years it is almost full - which can cause system slowdowns, too.
And, 8 years might be a long time for an SSD.
Anyway, your Activity Monitor is a good place to look for possible problems, such as high memory use, or some system process or app that causes high CPU usage. And, you're the one that gets to check that out.
Yes, the 2012 iMac was available with SSD, as a custom order, either 256GB or 512GB; but normally would come standard with a spinning hard drive, or maybe a fusion drive.
A Fusion drive also has an SSD component.
If you have a 256GB SSD, maybe after 8 years it is almost full - which can cause system slowdowns, too.
And, 8 years might be a long time for an SSD.
Anyway, your Activity Monitor is a good place to look for possible problems, such as high memory use, or some system process or app that causes high CPU usage. And, you're the one that gets to check that out.
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Damm those must have been thick or heavy The early Macbook Airs with a hard drive? Were they even Airs at all?
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I have another installation of Mac running off an ssd hard drive that I took out and someone installed in a Mac shop here in Warsaw for me due to literally the old hard drive failing and I had a second Mac my mom brought me from the U.S. however slight rain fell on top of it so the display has some weird cloudyness to it on edges but I can connect it to my HDTV as I use my mac this way anyway. But basically a thrid Mac had the ssd go kaput so I bought a new SSD hoping I would put it in to replace the old one but they told me at the Mac shop I would have to have specific APple expensive SSDs so I just had them install and run Mac off of it and connect it externally.
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It works real well, like super fast and it beats paying premium for an Apple OEM hard drive as any ssd will do if you install a Mac externally on it.
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I have another installation of Mac running off an ssd hard drive that I took out and someone installed in a Mac shop here in Warsaw for me due to literally the old hard drive failing and I had a second Mac my mom brought me from the U.S. however slight rain fell on top of it so the display has some weird cloudyness to it on edges but I can connect it to my HDTV as I use my mac this way anyway. But basically a thrid Mac had the ssd go kaput so I bought a new SSD hoping I would put it in to replace the old one but they told me at the Mac shop I would have to have specific APple expensive SSDs so I just had them install and run Mac off of it and connect it externally.
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It works real well, like super fast and it beats paying premium for an Apple OEM hard drive as any ssd will do if you install a Mac externally on it.
2008-2009 MBAir came with a 1.8-inch, 4200 rpm hard drive. A tiny thing, pretty noisy, as I recall, but mostly just really slow. The drives were about 78mm x 54mm x 7mm, so really small - but that was also reflected in low performance. It worked, but the 2 or 3 users that I knew at the time quickly moved to SSDs.
SSDs, although fast, CAN still fail. But, again, your Activity Monitor might help you decide if you have some kind of software issue.
SSDs, although fast, CAN still fail. But, again, your Activity Monitor might help you decide if you have some kind of software issue.
Ok I am really starting to feel like my Macbook Air has a virus now. I restarted into the external ssd installation and it is giving me problems as well. My keyboards are totally acting weird and they would sometimes stop working and I have to wait for them to reconnect and sometimes it feels like the keyboard types by itself signs I didnt even press. Its not slow now though but still periodically even after turning off steam and its steam helpwer which seemed to have been the main issue still slows down periodically.
It seems to change over time. ive seen very little weirdness in there the steam thing sort of helped one of my sd drive boots but it may be some page I have open in opera. Nothing out of the ordinary in there though.