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Very slow Air. Please help!


I have a macbook air version 10.5.8

Speed 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory 2GB

Bus Speed 800MHz


It takes several minutes to start - say 5 mins.

When opening each app it akes a very long time

There is freezing and much spinning wheel of death.


However when looking at Activity monitor there:

System momery syas 2Gb free

Disk usage says 50 GB free


Don't know why so slow


Please can anyone help?


Am not very tech literate. Please can any fixes be kindly described..


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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 25, 2012 11:14 AM

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Dec 25, 2012 11:19 AM in response to Luther Redshaw

Mac OS X tends to look after itself... To keep your Mac Happy... See Here...


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147



http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html



Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks



COMPUTER SLOW...



Basically... Make sure you have enough Free Hard Drive space for your Mac to Perform as expected...


Rule of thumb is about 25 GB +



This is what Apple has to say.


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10798



More Info Here...


ds store > Why is my computer slow?



Thomas A Reed > Mac Performance Guide

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