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

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!

Try running the application Activity Monitor. You will find it inside Utilities in your Application folder. In Activity Monitory, you can see all running programs and sort them on cpu usage to find out what's grabbing most of your processor. You can also check whether your machine is low on memory (this can easily make it very slow!), and sort processes on memory usage to find out what's grabbing a lot of memory on your machine.

(You'll often find Safari on top of that list, and quitting and restarting Safari is then all you need to do to speed up your machine again)

No problem, I'm glad I could help.

Now, there is never anything wrong with backing up your files, I strongly encourage you to do so from personal experience of losing data that can't be replaced, but it's all up to you.

If you check what apps are running and how much CPU power they are taking up when it begins to run slow you'll have a better idea of what the problem might be.

Hope it works out for you.

iliafromathens wrote:

since you are such a big help, can you please let me know how can i check what apps are running???

Please re-read my post above: Use Activity Monitor!

Reference Espen Vestre's post, you use the Activity Monitor.

These days 2GB isn't really that much, I didn't get really happy before I got the machine I'm writing this on - with 16 GB 😁. So you need to be somewhat careful not to start too many programs at once and restart programs which use a lot of memory every now and then.

To see which program uses the most memory, make Activity Monitor sort its output on memory usage. You do this by clicking on the header that says "Real mem" (in the English version).

iliafromathens wrote:

A ok, keynote and all these presentations uses 485MB

So you are suggesting I should go shopping 🙂

🙂

But - not really: You should first try to see what happens if you quit Keynote and then open only one presentation.

Btw. I think Lion uses slightly less RAM. Or maybe it's simply that Safari 5.1 uses less RAM (also when on Snow Leopard).

I have no affiliation with any computer or electronic companies, With that said, I took my macbook pro( late 2011) to Fry's electronics in Houston and they upgraded my ram from 4gb to 8gb for less than 150 bucks. They are a authorized Apple repair center so you don't have to worry about voiding your warranty. I hope that helps.

shalou wrote:

I have no affiliation with any computer or electronic companies, With that said, I took my macbook pro( late 2011) to Fry's electronics in Houston and they upgraded my ram from 4gb to 8gb for less than 150 bucks. They are a authorized Apple repair center so you don't have to worry about voiding your warranty. I hope that helps.

It's not very difficult to do yourself (following the instructions in the Apple manual that came with the machine), I just did it with my brother's MacBook Pro 17" mid-2009 two days ago. One of the screws was a bit difficult to mount again, but otherwise it's really not a problem if you take care with static electricity (which should be taken seriously where I live these days - cold and dry air gives more static electricity). It cost him the equivalent of 50 dollars (and a few minutes of my time 🙂).

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