Computer Help

[Reliant121]

I guess that is an advantage of Macs, although viruses for Mac are beginning to rotate now. My mother managed to get hold of one within a week, so we now run an AV software. Which might be whats slowing it down. But its a dual core 2.4 processor, it should be able to cope easily. My windows machine is a core duo 2.8 and can deal with anything i throw at it in XP and almost anything in Vista.

What crap AV software are you putting on it? It shouldn't be slowed down at all. Mine isn't using Sophos, it goes like a rocket.

I have no idea. And I didnt say it definately did, but it might be. All I know is that the mac runs at about the same speed as the old 1.8 single core out in the shed.

[IanKennedy]

I guess that is an advantage of Macs, although viruses for Mac are beginning to rotate now. My mother managed to get hold of one within a week, so we now run an AV software. Which might be whats slowing it down. But its a dual core 2.4 processor, it should be able to cope easily. My windows machine is a core duo 2.8 and can deal with anything i throw at it in XP and almost anything in Vista.

What crap AV software are you putting on it? It shouldn't be slowed down at all. Mine isn't using Sophos, it goes like a rocket.

I have no idea. And I didnt say it definately did, but it might be. All I know is that the mac runs at about the same speed as the old 1.8 single core out in the shed.

Then something is seriously wrong, Macs are fast. In Utilities (inside Apps) there's an application called Activity Monitor. Run that. Then select 'All processes' from the drop down top right of the window. Now click the column heading for CPU until it puts the largest values at the top. What is running and taking all your CPU? Oh, yes on a Core2Duo you can go up to 200% CPU as each core has it's own 100%.

Next click on the System Memory tab near the bottom. What percentage of the memory is free (Green)?

[Teaos]

most people buy the $1000 one that have 2.0-2.2Ghz which only 2GB RAM

$600 US for that is about right from what I've seen.

[Reliant121]

Then something is seriously wrong, Macs are fast. In Utilities (inside Apps) there's an application called Activity Monitor. Run that. Then select 'All processes' from the drop down top right of the window. Now click the column heading for CPU until it puts the largest values at the top. What is running and taking all your CPU? Oh, yes on a Core2Duo you can go up to 200% CPU as each core has it's own 100%.

Next click on the System Memory tab near the bottom. What percentage of the memory is free (Green)?

1.04 gb of memory is free. It might be worth noting that my mother has dual booted, and put windows on in some other section of the hardrive, i dont know what its called.

[Teaos]

Bootcamp.

And that isnt a lot of free memory left... maybe if you free'd some up it would help. Most computers run slow when they get down bellow 10-5% capacity.

[Reliant121]

I meant ram by that. We have absolutely TONNES of hardrive memory.

[Teaos]

Oh, in that case I have no idea. Maybe a virus but I'm doubting it... Could be a faulty CPU, but again I'm doubting it.

[IanKennedy]

I meant ram by that. We have absolutely TONNES of hardrive memory.

Yes, but what applications are taking a lot of CPU. It should tell you if you do the first thing I suggested. If it's the name of an AV program you know what's causing the slowdown.

[Reliant121]

I did. The thing that took the most, was in fact the activity moniter.

[stitch626]

most people buy the $1000 one that have 2.0-2.2Ghz which only 2GB RAM

$600 US for that is about right from what I've seen.

Oh your dollars are that different? Oops.

Then that is about right spec wise.