Ever Since I installed 10.5 My computer seems to be running slow
ok so i have a had leopard installed for about a week and a half or so. It seems that ever since i installed it my macbook seems to be running slower alot slower. I have 2 gb of memory in it. Does and one have any ideas about y or what i could do?
Sadly, mine has not fully recovered. It was abysmal when I first installed Leopard - it tried to do backups continuously. That went on for a week, and nothing else would run. programs would open partially and just hang, or freeze, or go stupid.
I had 1.25 Gig of RAM then, and I was ready to trade it in on an old Amiga. But I worked with it, upgraded memory to !.75 Gig, unplugged the external drive to stop the endless backups, and now - well now it runs slightly better than a bad copy of Windows 98.
This is a G4 tower, 877 MHz. duel processor. But the spinning rainbow (beach ball?) seems to be my constant companion. Often, the cursor freezes on the screen for more than a minute - very frustrating.
I have also had to turn off the energy savers, both CPU and screen. With those on, it would sometimes not wake up without a hard reboot.
I am looking forward to the next version.
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