Mid-2010 27" iMac very slow, even after clean OS install - HELP!
Good afternoon guys, I'm hoping someone can offer me some advice.
I bought my Mid-2010 27" iMac in May-ish 2011. Everything was brilliant, I couldn't believe the ease of use, and especially the start up speed, coming from a world of PCs. My iMac was used almost every day, for web browsing, photo editing, etc.
Maybe about April / May this year it started becoming very slow, slow to boot, slow to respond to mouse clicks, slow to do anything. Since I'd used about 750GB of my HDD (mainly photos), I decided I would archive some and hope that would ease the congestion. As my photos were stored in Aperture, it took about 3 days to export them all to my external HDD, 3 days of the iMac only getting so far, switching itself off, then me finally getting it to come back on (I was getting messages about Kernals, etc. now and again through boot too) - it finally backed up my photos I have from my daughters first year.
Great news, but I still had probably 400GB / 500GB of photos from her second year and any other photos I'd taken. I found the root of my Aperture directory, and managed to pull these images off, so everything is now backed up.
I decided I should try and clean install, and managed to get the HDD to boot and choose the option to re-install from Apple's Servers. All installed OK, and we're good to go! Fired up the iMac, and although it's fractionally quicker to respond, and a lot more stable, it's not quite right. And I've lost all my iLife Apps which originally came with the iMac.
Does this sound like a HDD issue? As I say, it was on quite a lot through the backup procedure, and I had set it (maybe stupidly looking back now) to never sleep, and for the monitor to only switch off after 3 hours. Or does it sound like something more is wrong with it?
I am quite confident of working with PCs, so would manage to replace the HDD I think, looking at some videos, etc. online. I did upgrade the RAM to 16GB, and that was simple enough. My question is, when you replace the HDD, how does it know where to look to the Apple Servers for the clean OS install? Or do I have to do something to let it know where to look first? I have to point out I don't have any Time Machine backup, etc. as the iMac was just not stable enough to get this in place - and up until that point, again probably stupid now looking back, I had never bothered to set up.
Any help / advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. At the moment I have totally fallen out of love with the iMac, for something to cost £1,500+ and only last 3 years, where my last build PC lasted Approx 8 years for half the price, is very disappointing.
Thanks in advance,
Col
Just suggesting things right off the bat here-
To me it sounds as though the HDD is failing, if your iMac shipped with a Seagate drive try entering your serial number to see if Apple will replace it:http://www.apple.com/au/support/imac-harddrive/
Or try running Apple Hardware Test a few times back to see if it is a hardware error.
As for the iLife apps they should've come on one of the install discs that shipped with your mac.
If your iMac is ineligible for the program above I would consider replacing it yourself with either an SSD or HDD, as for recognising apples servers for download, you will need the original install discs that came with your computer or if you haven't already it will need a firmware update to enable internet recovery
See here:Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery
Good Luck!
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The performance of my Macbook Air 2010 has slowed to the point where I can hardly complete basic tasks. For comparison, I use a MacBook Air 2013 at work and do not experience the same performance issues, so I believe my expectations are not unreasonably high.
My Question
Can you please advise on what I can do to troubleshoot? I've tried the solutions listed below, all of which have failed.
I'm grateful for any help you can offer.
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MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir3,2
1 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
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BANK 1/DIMM0
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
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[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSamsung (0.0.2) Support
[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSmartplugSCSIDevice (1.0.1) Support
[not loaded] de.novamedia.oem.vodafone.vtp.huawei.cdc (0.0.2) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/NMHuaweiPhonesVTPCDC_106.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMControl (3.2.12) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/NMSamsungDriver_106.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMData (3.2.12) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/NovatelWireless3G.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3GData (3.0.13) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/Vodafone.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.vodafone.driver.Data (3.0.9) Support
Startup Items: ℹ️
HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
HWNetMgr: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWNetMgr
HWPortDetect: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HWPortDetect
Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.accountsd.plist
[failed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist
[failed] com.apple.bird.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.cloudd.plist
[failed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
[failed] com.apple.coreservices.uiagent.plist
[failed] com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert.plist
[failed] com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist
[failed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesagent.plist
[failed] com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
[failed] com.apple.pluginkit.pkd.plist
[failed] com.apple.recentsd.plist
[failed] com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy.plist
[failed] com.apple.spindump_agent.plist
[failed] com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd.plist
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.awdd.plist
[failed] com.apple.cache_delete.plist
[failed] com.apple.coresymbolicationd.plist
[failed] com.apple.ctkd.plist
[failed] com.apple.diagnosticd.plist
[failed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesagent.plist
[failed] com.apple.iconservices.iconservicesd.plist
[failed] com.apple.ifdreader.plist
[failed] com.apple.installd.plist
[failed] com.apple.MobileFileIntegrity.plist
[failed] com.apple.nehelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plist
[failed] com.apple.sandboxd.plist
[failed] com.apple.softwareupdated.plist
[failed] com.apple.spindump.plist
[failed] com.apple.sysmond.plist
[failed] com.apple.tccd.system.plist
[failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist
[failed] com.apple.xpc.smd.plist
[running] de.novamedia.nmnetmgrd.plist Support
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[failed] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] de.novamedia.VodafoneDeviceObserver.plist Support
[invalid?] SwapperUFi.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[invalid?] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[loaded] com.cloudpath.maccmd.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[invalid?] PPPMonitord.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[invalid?] com.akamai.client.plist Support
[invalid?] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist Support
[failed] com.facebook.videochat.[redacted].plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
SurplusMeterAgent UNKNOWN (missing value)
Google Chrome ApplicationHidden (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)
HP Scheduler Application (/Library/Application Support/Hewlett-Packard/Software Update/HP Scheduler.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.2.6 Support
OVSHelper: Version: 1.1 Support
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Support
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.10411.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.152 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 15.0.0.223
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
OctoshapeWeb: Version: 1.0 Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 <video>
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
DivX Support
Flash Player Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 249.20 GB Disk used: 223.78 GB
Destinations:
Time Machine Backups [Local]
Total size: 0 B
Total number of backups: 0
Oldest backup: -
Last backup: -
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 0 B < (Disk used 223.78 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
15% WindowServer
1% Dropbox
0% AppleSpell
0% Skype
0% imagent
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
60 MB Google Chrome
56 MB JavaApplicationStub
47 MB Skype
45 MB Finder
45 MB WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
60 MB Free RAM
443 MB Active RAM
398 MB Inactive RAM
349 MB Wired RAM
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633 MB Page-outsI advise to reply to the one you want to reply to.
You have had good information here. I will not repeat that here.
I would like to add:
you have incompatible software: start in SafeMode, read Woodmeister and see if it is free of issues.
Akamai is crap software needed or not, Huawei the same.
It is very possible that the keygenerator you used for generating a key for some softwares has infected your mac.
The non-regular software with the false key(s) are not compatible probably or generate malware. Luckily you can not update them automatically because the keygenerator blocked the software for contacting the developer... I propose to consider getting rid of those softwares by really good uninstalling.
You have a beautiful mac, don't degenerate it with crapped software. There are alternatives for expensive software, for example Adobe Photoshop has a free alternative (with a less beautiful interface) in GIMP. And so on.
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Mid-2010 27" iMac with i5 - process for determine why slow
I have a mid-2010 27" iMac with an i5 processor and 12 GB of memory running latest Maverick OS. I mainly use the computer for email, web browsing, light weight spreadsheets and importing/organizing/sharing photos. I understand why my computer would be slow on startup (with reloading Safari pages, updating notifications, updating email, updating iMessage, etc.) but more and more often I see the spinning ball while using the computer. I have run though the basic steps of fixing permissions, etc. and would like to understand what is limiting my computer's performance. A few other things to note...
I have 12 GB of memory (the original 2 GB x 2 and I've added 4 GB x 2). I have heard that mixing memory isn't best.
My 1 Tb hard drive is at 80% capacity. I have heard that ideally this would be lower.
How do I determine what is causing my slowness? Is there a way of finding out which programs are demanding memory and by how much? I have read that my iMac can offically support 16 GB memory and unofficially support up to 32 GB. Not sure if 12 GB is a limiting factor or not. Just looking to get another year or so from this computer without getting frustrated watching the spinning ball. Would a fresh install of Marvericks and then reloading my personal stuff improve the situation?
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Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
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Speeding up Macs,
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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance,
Mac troubleshooting: What to do when your computer is too slow,
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I have an iMac, running x10.5. My email is very slow, even opening a previously downloaded message. The computer is otherwise fast. What gives?
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link.)
Scroll to Mail folder.
Select the V2 > MailData folder.
Delete any files in MailData with envelope in the name. (should be 3)
When you open Mail it will re-index your files.
If you have IMAP accounts, you might want to delete the accounts then add back so they download all messages from the server again. -
My mbp (mid 2010) is running extremely slow after installing some mavericks updates on May 22nd. Earlier I thought this behavior is due to spotlight indexing but it finished after 3 days. I deleted all caches from library. But no luck, still running extremely slow. I checked activity monitor for cpu usage, it shows above 90% is idle. The memory usage always shows PM - 4 GB, Memory Used 3.96 GB, VM - 4 GB, Swaped used 0 bytes, App Memory 1.82 GB, File Cache 1.44 GB, Wired Memory 480 MB.
Thanks in adavnce for help.Was it the combo updater that was installed or the OS X 10.9.3 update. There is a difference.
MORE INFO ON WHY RUNNING COMBO FIXES ISSUES
Apple updates available from the Software Update application are incremental updates. Delta updates are also incremental updates and are available from Apple Downloads (software updates are generally smaller than delta updates). The Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted.
Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're applying--no need to roll back or do a clean install. So if you think you've got a borked 10.8.4 install from a regular update, just run the 10.8.4 Combo Updater on that system.
"Delta" updaters can only take you from one version to the next. For example: 10.9.1 to 10.9.2. If somehow the 10.9.2 is missing something it should have, and that something isn't changed between 10.9.1 and 10.9.2 it will still be stale after the delta update.
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