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    Mac slowing down

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dcook101, Nov 28, 2006.

  1. dcook101

    dcook101 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys, I've got a friend and she's complaining that her Macbook is slowing down. She's got a lot of itunes on it so could that be the problem? Also is there a way to "defrag" it or something? Thanks for reading.

    David
     
    dcook101, Nov 28, 2006
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Mac OS X automatically defrags its drives in the background, so there is no need to defrag it. How much free space does she still have on her HD? Is iTunes the only app she's got running? Try viewing the Activity Monitor to find out what is exactly eating up the system resources. Also, a restart might help if she has loads of programs open.
     
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  3. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    a lot of dashboard widgets may be eating resouces too... hard to say with so little info.
    iTunes 7 may be re-arranging her music, renormalizing volume, setting gapless playback, etc, and that may be the cause as well. Spotlight also can hog the system depending on what is indexing. As I said, very hard to know.
     
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    Keep things off the desktop also. That oddly enough has an effect on the speed of the system. Do permission repairs and get software to defrag the system.
    You can get idefrag, but it's demo won't let you defrag if you have files over 100 megs. And that showed a heavy amount of fragmentation on my drive :p
     
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    If she has only the standard 512mb she might want to consider upgrading to 1gb - I find that to be the most pleasant and cost effective upgrade
     
    jujube, Nov 29, 2006
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