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why is my ibook such a dog???
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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a couple of weeks ago I got a new 12: 1.33 ghz ibook. I have 1 gig of ram in it also.
this thing is frustratingly slow. Beach ball a plenty. Seems the most intensive thing I can do on it is simply adjust the system vokume up or down. Sometimes it takes 30-40 seconds to react. What am I doing at the moment, surfing the internet. Mail is open, thats it.
I can restart it and it tends to act better but to be honest, my old 7300 200 mhz with 96 megs or ram smokes ths thing. My HD will run for 5 mins straight during its peak meltdowns. Dont even try to pull up the wigets, thats easily 1 min waiting right there.
I can't believe this could really be this slow unless I am just screwing something major on it. Any suggestions??
thanks
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Looks like your HD is full. Have you checked how much space do you have available? Also, it wouldn't hurt to repair permissions. Also, do you have any A/V program running on the background? Those things on OS X tend to do more harm than good.
If you have enough HD, the next thing i would do is to take out your additional memory and try it out with just the base one. If suddenly the iBook "acts" normally then it is probable that the memory isn't doing its job right. Although to be sincere, a memory chip kind of works or doesn't work .. you would experience kernel panics, but slowing down isn't one of that. Its a long shot, but it might be worth it.
g luck,
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well my HD space seems to be disapearing a little every day. 4 days ago I had 5 gigs free, now its 2.7!! Whats up?
This is very strange
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Do you have FileVault on? Did you do a clean install when you got the iBook? Where did the extra ram come from?
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does file vault slow you down?
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Maybe spotlight has not finished indexing?
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I would recommend turning on Activity Monitor and checking it whenever your iBook seems slow. I have the same model and get slow downs from time to time and when I check activity monitor, I've found a few different things happening: A couple of times, I see process coreaudiod hung, or iChat agent hung, and once or twice I've seen kernel_task by root hogging 85% cpu which I have no clue what that is. A reboot fixed that one but I'm not too sure where it came from or what it was trying to do.
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Originally Posted by SeSawaya
well my HD space seems to be disapearing a little every day. 4 days ago I had 5 gigs free, now its 2.7!! Whats up?
This is very strange
Try to free up some space on your HD.
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Also, if none of the above advice works, take it to your local Apple Store and see what they say. There's no way that it should be *that* slow.
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