I got a new 27" iMac a few weeks ago, upgraded from a 20" iMac I had for a few years. I was expecting it to be AMAZING and outperform my old machine to no end. Unfortunately I just feel that it isn't very fast and it seems very sluggish. I seem to be getting spinning beachballs and apps freezing quite regularly. I had Safari lock up on me this morning and I couldn't even close the window, I had it full screen and had no access to the dock so I had to actually hard reset my machine. I've NEVER had a mac freeze on me before. Is this normal?
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iMac 27" Sluggish
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Have a look at Activity Monitor ( Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.
image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Have you also taken a look at your RAM usage via the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor? What does it say there?
image below uses sorting by CPU as an example
Have you also taken a look at your RAM usage via the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor? What does it say there?
The process 'mds' is using between 10 and 24%. Everything else is fine?
Now it's using 0.02. *updated*
"mds" is the Spotlight indexing process.
What about the RAM?
Free 1.99GB
Wired 487.5MB
Active 1.13GB
Inactive: 410.8MB
Used 2.01GB
VMSize 118.73GB
Page ins 429.2MB
Page Outs: 176KB
Swap Used 2.0MB
Bear in mind my mac has been on for a good few hours today.
