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New Mac Pro - Getting slower and Slower
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<blockquote data-quote="joe.morgan" data-source="post: 308740" data-attributes="member: 23213"><p>The story so far. Ive have my mac pro a week now, 2.66ghz, 2gb RAM, 160+250GB HDD, x1900xt 512mb card.</p><p></p><p>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</p><p></p><p> 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.</p><p></p><p>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</p><p></p><p>Photoshop cs1 - same thing here with the error message, uninstalled and re-installed twice and is now working OK, still takes ages to load</p><p></p><p>Premier 6.5 - would crash whenever trying to export movie, very slow at opening, 50/50 if it would open - uninstalled and binned!</p><p></p><p>Now ive checked activity monitor and istat pro widget… and there are the results:</p><p></p><p>I am running:</p><p></p><p>Itunes</p><p>Safari</p><p>Thunderbird</p><p>Messenger</p><p></p><p>Istat pro:</p><p></p><p>CPU:</p><p></p><p>User 1%</p><p>System: 3%</p><p>Nice: 0%</p><p>Idle: 98%</p><p></p><p>RAM:</p><p></p><p>Wired: 191</p><p>Active: 772</p><p>Inactive: 745</p><p>Free: 338</p><p></p><p>Activity Monitor:</p><p></p><p>Safari: 143.93 MB Real, 553.54 MB Vitual</p><p>Kernal task: 183MB real, 1.22Gb Virutal</p><p>Messenger: 76mb Real, 500mb vitual</p><p>Itunes: 53mb real, 438mb virtual</p><p>Thunderbird: 38mb real, 400mb vitual</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>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 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joe.morgan, post: 308740, member: 23213"] 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 :( [/QUOTE]
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