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Slow Mac after upgrading to Sonoma 14.0 OS

My Mac has 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM and has 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 processor and 839.27 GB HDD space is available of 2.12 TB total storage capacity.

Ever since I upgraded my Mac OS to Sonoma 14.0, I am very much frustrated. It takes about 3-5 minutes to show up the desktop icons and there after a minute or two to make the computer usable. Once I start using it, there is lot of intollerable latency in indexing and the search results to appear.

I tried following basic things but proved to be useless:

Finder-Go-Press option key + open Library - delete contents of the folders

Cashes, Cookies, Safari, saved application state - Then log out of mac then login to empty the trash bin.

What is the solution to it? Do I have to wait for the further upgrade or live with it for ever?

iMac 27″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 5, 2023 12:48 AM

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Owl-53

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Posted on Oct 6, 2023 6:54 AM

The Biggest Slow-Down this computer will experience is because of the Drive

Rotational / Mechanical Drives, not matter how fast 7200 RPM they appear to be, will never perform at the speed of an ALL SSD Drive

Coupled with the Rotational Drive is the Fusion aspect, the 128 GB SSD Drive

In Apple's Magic, they can present to the User ( you ) what appears as a Single Drive.

None the least, having a Fusion Drive, it seems to not be performing to your Expectations.

There are ways to get around this Performance issue but would require a Reliable Enclosure and a Reliable SSD Drive for this enclosure

Then Install Sonoma on the the External SSD Drive and setup that drive as your Startup Drive

Above is predicated on you wanting to Extend the Useful Life of this computer

Steps to setup an External Drive are included in below link

Use an external SSD as your startup disk … - Apple Community

As for Purchase of Enclosure and SSD Drive - one of my go to is https://eshop.macsales.com/

They may even have Specific Suggestion to match this Specific Computer

Hope all this is helpful and Yes , it is a real pleasure to try and assist 🇨🇦

Q - disk0 - APPLE HDD ST2000DM001 2.00 TB (Mechanical - 7200 RPM)

Q - disk1 - APPLE SSD SM0128L 121.33 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

Q - disk1s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 120.88 GB

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stef1998

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Mar 20, 2024 1:15 AM in response to novhsever

same here an no solutions found

kenpud

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May 29, 2024 4:41 AM in response to milind37

Same problem. But you’re lucky. Takes about two to three hours sometimes to get something useful going on my iMac! Very frustrating 😡

Owl-53

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Oct 13, 2023 8:28 AM in response to milind37

If and Only if this computer was Not A Brand New and Never Previously Owned computer.

Even if your Wipe the Drive 100% Clean of All Data and reinstall the Operating System again

If the Serial Number of this computer WAS Registered a MDM service

They could at any time Invoke Installing their Profiles on this computer

That could explain how the Profiles are appearing on this computer

The Only way to have the Profiles removed forever would to trace back from Original First Owner of the computer Who the MDM Service was

Then communicate with the MDM to Remove the Serial Number from their DataBase

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Slow Mac after upgrading to Sonoma 14.0 OS