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- 27" Retina 5K iMac 3.2Ghz Quad 24GB RAM, 1TB HD. iPhone 11.
My iMac is a few years old now but still going strong and came shipped with OSX Tiger. When Leopard came out I upgraded to that and it's performance was every bit as good. However when I upgraded to Snow Leopard I've noticed a definite drop in performance.
Most tasks just seem to take longer to perform, for example in Firefox closing a tab takes a second or two to actually take place rather than being instant as it used to be, even opening web pages seems to take a couple of seconds longer than 'normal'.
It's not just Firefox, certain programs also run slower. Aperture 2 which used to be a little slow under Leopard is now quite a bit slower under Snow Leopard. iTunes takes longer to launch and to respond and opening large files (600MB+ in Photoshop takes longer)
Initially after upgrading to Snow Leopard I found I was getting lots of random problems like iTunes not working correctly with my iPhone, fonts not displaying correctly and so I reinstalled Snow Leopard and all those problems went away but I'm still left with my system running slower than it did.
My iMac currently only has 2GB of RAM and only supports a maximum of 3GB and I've just this second ordered new RAM to max it out to 3GB but is there anything else I can do to get my performance back?
So far I've tried:
Resetting Params
Verifying Permissions on all drives
Is there anything else I can do?
Most tasks just seem to take longer to perform, for example in Firefox closing a tab takes a second or two to actually take place rather than being instant as it used to be, even opening web pages seems to take a couple of seconds longer than 'normal'.
It's not just Firefox, certain programs also run slower. Aperture 2 which used to be a little slow under Leopard is now quite a bit slower under Snow Leopard. iTunes takes longer to launch and to respond and opening large files (600MB+ in Photoshop takes longer)
Initially after upgrading to Snow Leopard I found I was getting lots of random problems like iTunes not working correctly with my iPhone, fonts not displaying correctly and so I reinstalled Snow Leopard and all those problems went away but I'm still left with my system running slower than it did.
My iMac currently only has 2GB of RAM and only supports a maximum of 3GB and I've just this second ordered new RAM to max it out to 3GB but is there anything else I can do to get my performance back?
So far I've tried:
Resetting Params
Verifying Permissions on all drives
Is there anything else I can do?