Applications do nor open on the Intel based iMac

I am rather disappointed with the new iMac with the much vaunted Intel processor. Among other things it is slow and more to the point, buggy.
After it has been up and running for some time and especially if it has been left idle for a while, many non-Apple programmes will not open. Today, I left the machine on, went away for about an hour. when I came back, I was unable to open a backgammon application. Many times, Entourage or other Microsoft programmes won't open. The solution is to re-boot and then all is well. However, the computer is very slow to re-boot. Apple 'iprogrammes' such as iWeb are pretty slow to open up.
This new machine is not fast. My Powerbook on 10.4.8 runs faster in just about every respect. By the way I have already done an archive and re-install; I run regular Unix clean up programmes and have also run it through Onyx.
The most I can award this computer is a meagre five out of ten. Not awfully impressed.
Any thoughts out there.
David Amies
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David
The apps you mention - entourage etc. - are rosetta apps, that is, apps not yet updated for the Intel machines and using the Rosetta emulation layer. This can cause trouble from time to time, but a re-start is not necessary. You can force Rosetta to restart by either:
Launch Activity Monitor (in your Utilities) and search for a process called 'translated'. Quit it using the Activity Monitor. Then lauching Entourage (or whatever) will restart it, and the apps should start.
or
In the Terminal issue the following command
sudo killall translated
You'll be asked for your password, give it and hit return. Does exactly the same as the above.
if you're finding a general slowness, especially with the iApps, you might like to trash your caches. A glitchy cache file can slow things down quite a bit. There are several utilities that will do this for you, or you could just go into Home/Library/Caches and trash the various folders therein.
Regards
TD

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