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Sep 10, 2014 1:34 PM in response to mountainhomeby Kappy,Just restart the computer. Consider upgrading to Mavericks.
Upgrading to Mavericks
You can upgrade to Mavericks from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mavericks can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for FREE.
Upgrading to Mavericks
To upgrade to Mavericks you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Download Mavericks from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mavericks is free. The file is quite large, over 5 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
OS X Mavericks- System Requirements
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mavericks
1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later
2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 5,1 or later
3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
Are my applications compatible?
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Sep 10, 2014 3:41 PM in response to Kappyby mountainhome,Also, restarting doesn't make a difference
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Sep 10, 2014 4:04 PM in response to mountainhomeby Kappy,Oops. I didn't notice something in your images. I realize now that there is nothing wrong other than you have a task showing in red that you should force quit. Your kernel_task is not using too much memory at all.
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Sep 10, 2014 4:57 PM in response to Kappyby mountainhome,ok, i thought it was only supposed to use under 500mb and my computer is running slow in terms of booting up and software opening up.
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Sep 10, 2014 5:15 PM in response to mountainhomeby Kappy,Not that odd for the kernel_task to run over 1 GB. Depends on what you are running and what demands it makes on kernel routines. Mine runs 930 MBs.
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Sep 10, 2014 5:35 PM in response to Kappyby mountainhome,Ok thanks Kap, much obliged for your timely response.



