Hi all.
I have a 2008 Unibody MBP, bought in early '09. In recent months I have noticed a slow down in its overall speed. Slower boot speeds (it was sooo fast at first) and generic lag with apps. I attribute this without doubt to the HDD filling up (still quite empty, 65-70% free), and I have even noticed some improvements when I emptied out some files and ran some maintenance apps. But one app remains equally laggy: Safari. (v 4.0.5)
Startup takes a while, not so much the dock bouncing, but when it loads the home page. It takes forever and is really unresponsive. The same doesn't happen with Firefox, for example. Also opening a new empty tab (Top Sites) can be sloow.
Once it has been running for a while it all goes quite smoothly, internet speed is the same as with Firefox. But opening tabs quickly is still a problem. Yet I have checked the Activity Monitor and my RAM is basically 50% free (I have 2GB total).
Any thoughts as to what the cause is?
I have a 2008 Unibody MBP, bought in early '09. In recent months I have noticed a slow down in its overall speed. Slower boot speeds (it was sooo fast at first) and generic lag with apps. I attribute this without doubt to the HDD filling up (still quite empty, 65-70% free), and I have even noticed some improvements when I emptied out some files and ran some maintenance apps. But one app remains equally laggy: Safari. (v 4.0.5)
Startup takes a while, not so much the dock bouncing, but when it loads the home page. It takes forever and is really unresponsive. The same doesn't happen with Firefox, for example. Also opening a new empty tab (Top Sites) can be sloow.
Once it has been running for a while it all goes quite smoothly, internet speed is the same as with Firefox. But opening tabs quickly is still a problem. Yet I have checked the Activity Monitor and my RAM is basically 50% free (I have 2GB total).
Any thoughts as to what the cause is?