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2.2Ghz MacBook Slowness Issues
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coreythemagnificent46
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Jun 10, 2008, 08:50 PM
 
I have a C2D MacBook 2.2ghz With the GMA X3100 and 4GB Of ram.. Its really sluggish.. Firefox beachballs and crashes sometimes.. Same with azreaus. I used the Migration assistant to suck everything off my old intel Mac Mini. For the life of me I cant figure out why this thing is slow. It should be screaming with 4GB of ram.

Any Ideas??
     
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Jun 10, 2008, 08:53 PM
 
Run the hardware test to make sure nothing is bad. Also test the hard drive for errors or bad sectors.
     
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Jun 10, 2008, 10:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by coreythemagnificent46 View Post
I used the Migration assistant to suck everything off my old intel Mac Mini.
There's your problem right there; destroys everything it touches.

Erase and Install OS X, then migrate your files over manually.
     
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Jun 11, 2008, 12:03 AM
 
Guess its time to clone the internal to the external drive and spend an afternon reloading everything.. saving all my preferences and and whatnot out of my previous home folder
     
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Jun 11, 2008, 12:26 AM
 
Migration assistant does not "destroy everything it touches". Problems with it are very rare.
     
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Jun 15, 2008, 01:29 AM
 
Migration assistant was an awful experience for me as well. Turned my new Mac into a slug. A format and reinstall will probably fix it.
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3.4 Ghz P IV, 2GB RAM, X800 XT AIW, XP Pro, Dell 2405FPW
     
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Jun 15, 2008, 02:36 AM
 
Originally Posted by peeb View Post
Migration assistant does not "destroy everything it touches". Problems with it are very rare.
Absolutely. For every person on this board that claims "it destroyed everything" you will find at least two dozen that had no issues at all. Especially when migrating from Intel->Intel.

Blaming MA is usually a knee-jerk reaction in lieu of actual trouble shooting. Create a new user form scratch. Log in to that user account (do not transfer plist files) and try your apps out. If the behavior is the same it's your system. If not, it's your regular user account's prefs, add-ons, etc. If it's the system you might need an A&I, if it's in your user account, you need to narrow it down to find out who the culprit is. You'd be surprised to see how mich havoc a simple 4k plist file can create.
     
   
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