Hello all. My I-Mac, which I believe to be the 2009 model, has recently been functioning very poorly. It began abruptly yesterday where one hour I was watching videos on youtube without an issue and then it became very unresponsive shortly after. It had become so slow that I performed a hard shutdown as the computer would not respond to my clicking on simply the apple logo.
After this shutdown, I assumed it would function properly, but then it persisted. Symptoms of this include the dock not responding immediately, whereas typically it would respond, when I dragged my mouse over the icons. Loading applications takes very long as does loading websites. Despite this, loading my homepage does not take very long, and according to my activity monitor, neither the RAM nor the processor are being strained to their limits.
The model has not been updated to Mavericks yet, but is on the 10.8 version. If anybody could help me with potential resolutions it would be greatly appreciated. I think it could be a hard drive failure due to the shutdown, but I find that unlikely as the symptoms were present prior to the shutdown. Alternatively, it may be I need to reinstall or upgrade the OS; i'm not sure, so perhaps that's where you all could start in diagnosing this problem.
Thank you whoever responds.
After this shutdown, I assumed it would function properly, but then it persisted. Symptoms of this include the dock not responding immediately, whereas typically it would respond, when I dragged my mouse over the icons. Loading applications takes very long as does loading websites. Despite this, loading my homepage does not take very long, and according to my activity monitor, neither the RAM nor the processor are being strained to their limits.
The model has not been updated to Mavericks yet, but is on the 10.8 version. If anybody could help me with potential resolutions it would be greatly appreciated. I think it could be a hard drive failure due to the shutdown, but I find that unlikely as the symptoms were present prior to the shutdown. Alternatively, it may be I need to reinstall or upgrade the OS; i'm not sure, so perhaps that's where you all could start in diagnosing this problem.
Thank you whoever responds.