Is NAS a solution for a super slow iMac?
I have a twelve month old iMac, running Catalina 10.15.2. I bought it when my 2012 Fusion Drive iMac ground to a halt, the spinning ball of **** dogging my every key stroke. When I migrated everything over, I did not use Time Machine, instead I dragged and dropped everything (which was a massive pain when it came to migrating emails).
It seemed fine for a while but eventually, many tasks, from start up to launching apps, to creating a new email etc, took an unreasonable amount of time. I took it into Apple, to the Genius Bar, where the woman acknowledged that, for a new iMac, it was remarkable slow, even taking into account my transition from Fusion to standard HDD.
She recommended starting from scratch and, again, carefully migrating files over. It seemed to work for a while but, eventually, the SBOH returned. I have disconnected all peripherals and the issue remains.
I have run Malware and Bitdefender. I cleaned up a bunch of things with Bitdefender, or quarantined them, although any thing suspect sat on an external drive.
My music all sits on an external drive, but my photos and vids all sit in Photos on the internal HDD.
Memory does not look to be an issue, but one thing I was wondering is, if I hooked up a NAS and moved things like Photos to it, would that help to speed things up?
One other consideration, I guess, is that I bought a super cheap version of Office 2019 (not subscription based) which I later found out is probably a third-party product, or whatever it's called. It's slow as a Datsun 120Y, but I suspect it's the iMac, not the software.
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
I'm really disappointed with this iMac and I've been in the Apple ecosystem since the 80s.
Specs:
iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019)
Processor: 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i3
Memory: 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Graphics: Radeon Pro 555X 2 GB
Disk utility states: 10.87GB used 838.62GB free
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
