iMac stability issue
I have the following iMac: 24", late 2006, 2,33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running Mac OS Lion 10.7.3. (new HD fitted 1 year ago)
For some timeI I have endured 'frozen' applications, particularly the native applications Mail and Safari. I re-installed Lion recently but there has been no improvement. At prresent I am lucky if I can run Mail for more than 3 minutes without the system freezing (quitting the application doesn't really help, but a re-start will briefly).
My question is this: is my iMac just too old; is this a software or hardware issue; should I consider erasing the disk and starting again...?
iMac Intel 24", Mac OS X (10.6.6), iPad, MacBook Air, iPhone 4