My iMac is running slow. Spinning daisy wheel driving me crazy. 16GB of memory in use (8GB in each slot). memory in his late 2013 model, iMac 21.5" is not removable.
What can I do to fix my problem?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
[Scratch the first part of my original post. The memory on this iMac is soldered in! The only correct part of my opening paragraph was that "the maximum possible amount is 16 GB – and you're already there."]
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Are you sure that lack of memory is the problem? What does the Memory Pressure graph in Activity Monitor say, if you watch it while running everyday workloads? That graph is color-coded, so that
I'd be more inclined to suspect problems with what you have installed on your Mac, or issues with the speed of the drive. Many of those Macs came with slow 2.5" 5400 RPM SATA hard drives. Some came with 1 TB Fusion Drives that had 128 GB of SSD space; others, with 256 GB or 512 GB of flash storage (i.e., a SSD).
If you have just a 1 TB hard drive, then an external USB 3.0 / SATA SSD startup drive might be just the thing to make the Mac seem a lot faster.
[Scratch the first part of my original post. The memory on this iMac is soldered in! The only correct part of my opening paragraph was that "the maximum possible amount is 16 GB – and you're already there."]
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Are you sure that lack of memory is the problem? What does the Memory Pressure graph in Activity Monitor say, if you watch it while running everyday workloads? That graph is color-coded, so that
I'd be more inclined to suspect problems with what you have installed on your Mac, or issues with the speed of the drive. Many of those Macs came with slow 2.5" 5400 RPM SATA hard drives. Some came with 1 TB Fusion Drives that had 128 GB of SSD space; others, with 256 GB or 512 GB of flash storage (i.e., a SSD).
If you have just a 1 TB hard drive, then an external USB 3.0 / SATA SSD startup drive might be just the thing to make the Mac seem a lot faster.
My iMac late 2013 model's 16GB of memory is in use and computer runs slow. memory is not removable in this model. What can I do to make my computer run faster? Spinning daisy wheel driving me crazy.
