Hi guys, New Member with a problem.
I have an iMac 11,Intel Core i5, recently moved over from Windows.
I have noticed a rapid decrease in the processing speed upon booting during the last few months, and during my day to day use of applications - mostly digital photography, miniDV programs. I do edit a lot of TIFF, PSD and RAW files in Photoshop and Digital Photo Professional as well as some Mini DV editing on iMovie. I first noticed the lethargic feeling occur around a few months ago when I was 'stabilizing' clips in iMovie.
As a result it started taking forever to pick up a piece on the timeline and move things or even play them back instantly. So I ended up deleting the whole project, which I think seemed to do the trick for a while, but it wasn't it's usual self.
Now I'm having the same slow problem, I assume this can only be with the Photoshop/ Digital Photo Professional route in which a lot of heavy files are layered and applied with a number of windows open at once.
Whilst I am considering an upgrade to my RAM, (currently using the 4GB standard) I wanted to check in with the experts and see whether the slow speed could be something else altogether.
I considered defragmenting, but I noticed there was something that said you didn't need to? I'm a little confused as to what's the best route. On a PC, I'd have probably gone down this route and checked what processes were running.
As I'm not 100 clued up on the Mac terminology of processes a few led me to this site with other examples of users mentioning keyloggers or slow speeds so thought I would post mine to see if anyone can help me work out if the problem is really just to do with the heavy workflow or something more serious.
Thankyou for your time, I appreciate any advice or support.
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I have an iMac 11,Intel Core i5, recently moved over from Windows.
I have noticed a rapid decrease in the processing speed upon booting during the last few months, and during my day to day use of applications - mostly digital photography, miniDV programs. I do edit a lot of TIFF, PSD and RAW files in Photoshop and Digital Photo Professional as well as some Mini DV editing on iMovie. I first noticed the lethargic feeling occur around a few months ago when I was 'stabilizing' clips in iMovie.
As a result it started taking forever to pick up a piece on the timeline and move things or even play them back instantly. So I ended up deleting the whole project, which I think seemed to do the trick for a while, but it wasn't it's usual self.
Now I'm having the same slow problem, I assume this can only be with the Photoshop/ Digital Photo Professional route in which a lot of heavy files are layered and applied with a number of windows open at once.
Whilst I am considering an upgrade to my RAM, (currently using the 4GB standard) I wanted to check in with the experts and see whether the slow speed could be something else altogether.
I considered defragmenting, but I noticed there was something that said you didn't need to? I'm a little confused as to what's the best route. On a PC, I'd have probably gone down this route and checked what processes were running.
As I'm not 100 clued up on the Mac terminology of processes a few led me to this site with other examples of users mentioning keyloggers or slow speeds so thought I would post mine to see if anyone can help me work out if the problem is really just to do with the heavy workflow or something more serious.
Thankyou for your time, I appreciate any advice or support.
http://galleryxlondon.com/terminalhelp.jpg