Hey guys, been using macs for over 10 years. Recently purchased an Air, was loving it until this week. Suddenly everything is runny crazy slow. Even while I type this things are not very responsive. What gives? I've tried re-booting (always works on my work PC) but no luck. Any tips? This is incredibly frustrating...
Crazy Slow Down
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Give Onyx a shot yet?
Never used it before. Just took a look at it, but concerned with adding other applications that I won't need - do a lot of people use it here? I'd probably prefer to figure out what the heck is going on without adding additional software - this shouldn't be occurring...
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It is odd. Check your about this mac and make sure a RAM module hasn't failed. People use Onyx here like crazy. Thats how I learned about it
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what are the apps you have open when these things happen? I had the MBA for just a week and realized that its garbage coz anytime if i have 4 or 5 apps open like itunes,iphoto, mail.app, vlc and ical it would become unresponsive and beachballs for a while and comes to a screeching halt. I took it to the apple store but they gave it back to me saying that the stress test have passed (72 hours running the machine in idle mode, wat the heck?)
I have no more words. The Air is sleeping now and i will be unloading it pretty soon.
I have no more words. The Air is sleeping now and i will be unloading it pretty soon.
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I've had this problem too with my MBA... basically think they marketed this new laptop awesomely and as a result... a lot of suckers bought one (me included)
Pretty disappointed, my plan was to sell my imac when I bought the MBA... but bugger that, I need the iMac as a fully functioning computer!
Pretty disappointed, my plan was to sell my imac when I bought the MBA... but bugger that, I need the iMac as a fully functioning computer!
Apple is a very large company with a reputation to keep. I highly doubt they will ever try and scam their customers. Obviously something is wrong, its not normal for a computer to just suddenly slow down so much. But Apple playing you just isnt happening.
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The MBA's slowness is due mainly to the 1.8" HDD: http://www.marco.org/277
It was built for portability, not performance. A SSD would improve the performance a lot, I think:
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3226&p=15
It was built for portability, not performance. A SSD would improve the performance a lot, I think:
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3226&p=15
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