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Ways to Speed up my Imac Core i3

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austinlallen

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Jul 30, 2011
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I bought my imac core i3, 4 GB RAM in April 2011 and i loved the experience of a mac

Lately ive noticed it has been getting slower and slower, heres some examples:

- It takes longer to boot up in osx than windows 7 on the same system
- It takes Twice as long to open apps than windows 7 does
- its really slow at web browsing

Does anyone have any tips to make the system faster software wise

Thanks
 
Does it 'feel' slower or did you actually measure tasks and have some hard data?

I would first look at your Memory footprint in Activity monitor: during the course of using your system, are you swapping at all.

I have the same iMac as you but run 8G (soon to be 16G) as I use several virtual machines at once. The system is not CPU bound for my tasks.

Anytime I end up swapping, things will get poke-y as pages are swapped in and out from disk.

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Ive noticed the same thing also on my iMac, exact model as yours. Kinda weird and disappointing, ive been resorting to my 08 MBP. Any ideas guys? I Don't even do anything that would use up all my ram, most intensive thing i do it minecraft.
 
If you don't have any phantom processes eating up resources, I'd try out Onyx:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/index.php

It forces the maintenance scripts to run, amongst other things. I've found it to really help in certain cases.

In terms of hardware, more ram never hurts, and an SSD will always speed up boot and application load times.
 
What programs are starting when you login?
How much disk space is free on your hard drive?
Does activity manager show any swapping?
 
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