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my macbook air became too slow, my macbook air became too slow

Hi dear Mac users

My macbook air became very slow.... is it because I have too many pics? or can I do some type of organization that I never did before?

MacBook Air

Posted on Aug 31, 2011 2:51 AM

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No_Dominion

Level 1

135 points

Posted on Aug 31, 2011 3:07 AM

Saying it is running slow is a bit vague, can you be more specific about when/how it is running slow (i.e. what tasks/programs/actions are you undertaking when it runs slow?)

It is doubtful that you have so many pics on your Air that it is running slow because of that, you'd have to have 10s of thousands of pictures to even come close to filling up the storage capacity of a 128 SSD (which I'm just guessing you have.)

By "organization" I'm assuming you're referring either to doing a disk defrag (not necessary on Mac's, especially an SSD driven Air due to the nature of SSD read/write capabilites,) or you're referring to how you have your pictures arranged in files on your storage drive, which isn't likely to be the culprit, either.

Given the lack of knowledge I'm going to guess that if you're noticing the slowness during normal operations it is probably going to be due to having too many CPU-intensive apps running at the same time (running flash based webpages is a major CPU hog as well as some high-res video or 3D apps/games.)

Let us know more and I'm sure someone here can help you figure it out, though.

Cheers!

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Dec 27, 2011 6:37 AM in response to shalou

shalou wrote:

That's great but I have 2400 bucks in my mac so I wouldn't void my warreny to save a 100 bucks.

Does it really void your warranty nowadays? After all it's described in the manual that comes with the machine. What you shouldn't do yourself, is to replace the battery (which is kind of strange, I wonder why they made it that way with the new batteries).

shalou

Level 1

20 points

Dec 29, 2011 6:15 PM in response to Espen Vestre

My guess is that they made the battery like that so we would have to take it in to an authorized Apple dealer to be serviced. About voiding the warranty, of course it will void your warranty if you open it up and start replacing things like ram. Do that to any electronics and you will void the warranty. You didn't know that????

Dec 29, 2011 11:48 PM in response to shalou

Shalou, 25 years ago you would void the warranty just by opening your Mac, but not today. However, you may void the warranty if you damage your machine in the course of upgrading it. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=13946

carl wolf

Level 6

14,625 points

Dec 30, 2011 12:01 AM in response to iliafromathens

Somehow the comparison of Apples to oranges sneaked in. One of you is referring to a MacBookPro (which can have its memory increased), and other person is referring to the MacBookAir (which cannot have its memory increased).

Dec 30, 2011 1:25 AM in response to carl wolf

carl wolf wrote:

Somehow the comparison of Apples to oranges sneaked in. One of you is referring to a MacBookPro (which can have its memory increased), and other person is referring to the MacBookAir (which cannot have its memory increased).

Thank you for reminding us about that, discussing memory replacements is definitely off-topic. I forgot about the topic of this thread :-) (but to my defense, I wasn't the one bringing the MacBook Pro into the discussion)

(Btw. the fact that it comes with only 2 or 4 GB of RAM which can't be extended is IMHO a very big drawback of the Air compared to the Pro. OS X is one memory-hungry operating system, and some of the most popular applications (e.g. Safari and iPhoto) are incredibly memory-hungry as well)

shalou

Level 1

20 points

Dec 30, 2011 6:43 PM in response to Espen Vestre

Interesting. Either I heard the Apple rep wrong or I misunderstood him. Probably the latter.

my macbook air became too slow, my macbook air became too slow