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Slow 2012 iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1842294" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I largely agree with IWT's assessment. You mention having 5 GB memory, which must be a typo because that's not possible (at least I don't think you can get RAM in that configuration. If you did, it may be non-standard and problematic itself). For the apps you are running, and even more especially under Catalina, you really need to have at least 16 GB. You also didn't mention what kind of internal drive you have, but as IWT said, your problems could be rooted in being short on free space. On top of that though, there seems to be a consensus that Catalina doesn't perform very well when booted from an HDD. If you don't have an SSD internally, that may be a complicating factor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1842294, member: 38864"] I largely agree with IWT's assessment. You mention having 5 GB memory, which must be a typo because that's not possible (at least I don't think you can get RAM in that configuration. If you did, it may be non-standard and problematic itself). For the apps you are running, and even more especially under Catalina, you really need to have at least 16 GB. You also didn't mention what kind of internal drive you have, but as IWT said, your problems could be rooted in being short on free space. On top of that though, there seems to be a consensus that Catalina doesn't perform very well when booted from an HDD. If you don't have an SSD internally, that may be a complicating factor. [/QUOTE]
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