Is this just normal after 7 years? I mean, 10-12 seconds between actions. I know tech speeds increase about 2x per year. Are there any solutions? Maybe get an SSD start-up drive or just renew the iMac? It's not Apple silicon. And I guess if my friend wanted Apple Vision, ???? It wouldn't work with it! Thanks R
if I had to guess, your Mac is HDD based instead of SSD based.
i'm thinking you should download and run the free version of EtreCheck so we can see if you have some software installed that is causing your issue. make sure you give "full disk access" to etrecheck. Learn how to use it by reading Using EtreCheck. if you need help interpreting the report, you can see how to post the report here by reading How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report. and it automatically obscures sensitive things (like serial numbers) so you don't have to worry about sharing the report here.
if I had to guess, your Mac is HDD based instead of SSD based.
i'm thinking you should download and run the free version of EtreCheck so we can see if you have some software installed that is causing your issue. make sure you give "full disk access" to etrecheck. Learn how to use it by reading Using EtreCheck. if you need help interpreting the report, you can see how to post the report here by reading How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report. and it automatically obscures sensitive things (like serial numbers) so you don't have to worry about sharing the report here.
Very very slow 2017 21" iMac using less than 256MB of it's 1 TB,
