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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
extremely slow macbook...?
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<blockquote data-quote="gwcottrell" data-source="post: 1573985" data-attributes="member: 151154"><p>I am on a white plastic macbook 2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo with 2 GB of memory, running OS 10.8.5, and everything is unbelievably slow. I click on the wireless icon and I get the spinning wheel of death. I try to open a new window on chrome, and nothing happens for a long time. I open the laptop after sleeping, and it takes around 2 minutes to wake everything up so that the mouse moves. </p><p></p><p>Activity monitor shows that the 2 CPUs are doing practically nothing, 85% idle. Sometimes there is only about 14 Mb of memory free, but even if a lot is free, it is still slow. The Finder is even slow.</p><p></p><p>Ok, it *is* faster when there is plenty of memory free, but still - should I not be running chrome? it seems like a complete memory hog.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gwcottrell, post: 1573985, member: 151154"] I am on a white plastic macbook 2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo with 2 GB of memory, running OS 10.8.5, and everything is unbelievably slow. I click on the wireless icon and I get the spinning wheel of death. I try to open a new window on chrome, and nothing happens for a long time. I open the laptop after sleeping, and it takes around 2 minutes to wake everything up so that the mouse moves. Activity monitor shows that the 2 CPUs are doing practically nothing, 85% idle. Sometimes there is only about 14 Mb of memory free, but even if a lot is free, it is still slow. The Finder is even slow. Ok, it *is* faster when there is plenty of memory free, but still - should I not be running chrome? it seems like a complete memory hog. [/QUOTE]
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