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- Your Mac's Specs
- Mac Pro: 2.66ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 4gb Ram, ATi X1900 XT 512MB, 1TB HDD, 19" LCD
The story so far. Ive have my mac pro a week now, 2.66ghz, 2gb RAM, 160+250GB HDD, x1900xt 512mb card.
Once i had set it all up, got my software on there, got all my funky little widgets it was perfect everything was so quick to open etc
One week on, i have noticed a considerable drop in performance, programs taking alot longer to load, time between clicking on a msn pop-up and the box appearing has tripled documents in photoshop take a lot longer to open.
Other problems i have had. Dreamweaver MX 2004 didn't open, it wud pop up and down on the dock and do nothing, when i restarted it opened but 1 in every 2 times i would get a message saying it was had to close - close, re open, report. I uninstalled then re-installed. i had more problems, same things again and it would take around 60 seconds to open. So i decided to get rid of it all together
Photoshop cs1 - same thing here with the error message, uninstalled and re-installed twice and is now working OK, still takes ages to load
Premier 6.5 - would crash whenever trying to export movie, very slow at opening, 50/50 if it would open - uninstalled and binned!
Now ive checked activity monitor and istat pro widget… and there are the results:
I am running:
Itunes
Safari
Thunderbird
Messenger
Istat pro:
CPU:
User 1%
System: 3%
Nice: 0%
Idle: 98%
RAM:
Wired: 191
Active: 772
Inactive: 745
Free: 338
Activity Monitor:
Safari: 143.93 MB Real, 553.54 MB Vitual
Kernal task: 183MB real, 1.22Gb Virutal
Messenger: 76mb Real, 500mb vitual
Itunes: 53mb real, 438mb virtual
Thunderbird: 38mb real, 400mb vitual
Now should i be worried? could there be something on my system? do i need to clean it up after re-installing programs over and over?
Sorry for the long post, im just extremely worried about my mac, a week in with this many problems doesn't feel me with confidence
Once i had set it all up, got my software on there, got all my funky little widgets it was perfect everything was so quick to open etc
One week on, i have noticed a considerable drop in performance, programs taking alot longer to load, time between clicking on a msn pop-up and the box appearing has tripled documents in photoshop take a lot longer to open.
Other problems i have had. Dreamweaver MX 2004 didn't open, it wud pop up and down on the dock and do nothing, when i restarted it opened but 1 in every 2 times i would get a message saying it was had to close - close, re open, report. I uninstalled then re-installed. i had more problems, same things again and it would take around 60 seconds to open. So i decided to get rid of it all together
Photoshop cs1 - same thing here with the error message, uninstalled and re-installed twice and is now working OK, still takes ages to load
Premier 6.5 - would crash whenever trying to export movie, very slow at opening, 50/50 if it would open - uninstalled and binned!
Now ive checked activity monitor and istat pro widget… and there are the results:
I am running:
Itunes
Safari
Thunderbird
Messenger
Istat pro:
CPU:
User 1%
System: 3%
Nice: 0%
Idle: 98%
RAM:
Wired: 191
Active: 772
Inactive: 745
Free: 338
Activity Monitor:
Safari: 143.93 MB Real, 553.54 MB Vitual
Kernal task: 183MB real, 1.22Gb Virutal
Messenger: 76mb Real, 500mb vitual
Itunes: 53mb real, 438mb virtual
Thunderbird: 38mb real, 400mb vitual
Now should i be worried? could there be something on my system? do i need to clean it up after re-installing programs over and over?
Sorry for the long post, im just extremely worried about my mac, a week in with this many problems doesn't feel me with confidence