Older MacPro running slow--keep it or get newer Mac?
We have a MacPro, but a little older generation, 2005-6. Processor: 2 x 2 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Memory: 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
I added a second hard drive a few years back, as well as more RAM (though now I can't remember how much! If this info would be helpful, please let me know where to look it up and I'll add that to my description.) The second disk is a TB disk with about 450 GB free. We store all our photo, video and music content on the second drive. The boot disk is the original one that came with the Mac. It is not full, but has about 75 GB free. We have OS 10.6.8 installed on the boot HD, as since it is the original disk it won't accept the latest versions of OS Maverick or whatever is the most recent.
In the past few months, it has started to shut down instead of sleeping. If, however, an internet browser window is open, it will go to screen saver and then the screen will sleep, but not the computer, but the computer won't shut down, either. Basically, if all applications are closed, instead of sleeping, the computer will shut down. It will turn back on with just a key stroke, which is not typical when one does a proper shut down. It's like the key stroke or pushing the power button awakes it from sleep, only it wasn't sleeping, because it goes through the whole "ding" of turning one, apple screen, then sign-in. Does that make sense?
Also, it is running SUPER SLOW. If I have our browser (either Safari or Chrome) open, as well as iTunes or iPhoto, it's even worse.
Basically, my question is this: should we, or CAN we even, try to tidy up the computer we have, possibly replace a hard drive or add more RAM, or would it behoove us to just get a new computer?
We definitely don't need the capacity of a MacPro anymore, as the photo editing and such I was assuming I needed when we originally bought the computer is minimal enough that we don't need that kind of power any more. I'm thinking an iMac or MacBook Pro even would do. We do not do any gaming, just usual internet usage, photo editing (Photoshop), minimal video editing just with the Mac software, and basic word processing/power point type stuff. We are not programmers, professional photograpers or videographers.
I would *like* to salvage our computer, as I feel it has space available (empty drive bays) that we are not currently using, probably is just a little old and needs a clean-up. I back things up to our Time Machine often, have minimal desktop icons, clean out the caches, basic maintenance. I'm not a knowledgeable enough computer person to do much more. Is it worth trying to salvage it? When I contacted the Apple store a while back about checking it out they basically laughed at me and asked why I still had such a dinosaur. I HATE thinking that it's becoming necessary to chuck out a computer every 5-8 years and buy a new one, especially when it's one that has been designed to expand. But perhaps that's naïve. I don't want to waste time if it's hopeless, and am not opposed to buying a new machine if need be. BUT, I am philosophically opposed to chucking out something that can be spruced up.
Opinions? Recommendations? Please keep in mind we are novices, so tech talk often goes over my head. The most tech I've done is installed the second hard drive and extra RAM.
Thanks.
EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated June 4, 2014 9:38:35 PM GMT+01:00
Hardware Information:
Mac Pro
Mac Pro - model: MacPro1,1
2 2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon CPUs: 4 cores
1 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT - VRAM: 32768 MB
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: 0 days 0:3:40
Disk Information:
WDC WD2500JS-41SGB0 disk0 : (232.89 GB)
(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB
HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 232.44 GB (170.6 GB free)
WDC WD10EACS-00D6B1 disk1 : (931.51 GB)
(null) (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB
Storage (disk1s2) /Volumes/Storage: 931.19 GB (331.33 GB free)
USB Information:
Mitsumi Electric Hub in Apple Extended USB Keyboard
Primax Electronics Apple Optical USB Mouse
Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard
Kernel Extensions:
[kext loaded] com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer (3 - SDK 10.7) Support
[kext loaded] com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers (1.7 - SDK 10.7) Support
[not loaded] com.tomtom.driver.UsbEthernetGadget (1.0.0d1) Support
Startup Items:
HP IO: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP IO
HP Trap Monitor: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
User Login Items:
None
Internet Plug-ins:
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.3.8.1 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 13.9.8 - SDK 10.6 Check version
Photo Center Plugin: Version: Photo Center Plugin 1.1.2.2 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.6
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.4 Support
DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 1.4 Support
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.0.1f2 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.2
3rd Party Preference Panes:
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Flip4Mac WMV Support
Top Processes by CPU:
6% mdworker
1% WindowServer
0% Google Chrome
0% fontd
0% usbmuxd
Top Processes by Memory:
73 MB Google Chrome
60 MB Google Chrome Helper
34 MB WindowServer
24 MB Finder
14 MB Dock
Virtual Memory Information:
314 MB Free RAM
431 MB Active RAM
96 MB Inactive RAM
181 MB Wired RAM
191 MB Page-ins
4 KB Page-outs
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