Monitor activity and Mac speed
My desktop computer iMac (early 2009 with OS X El Capitan; version 10.11.3; Clocked at 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor; Memory 2 GB) is running extremely slow. That's what I've done so far: I managed the startup items by removing unnecessary applications. I was told do NOT install software of cleaning as MacKeeper or CleanMyMac.
Then, I had planned to quit some applications that are taking place on my Mac RAM. I understand that, to stop the app (s), I click on the app (s) in the list displayed in the activity monitor. My question is, how do I know which applications to remove? Some have names that I don't recognize and some list the system as the user and one administrator list any 'root' for the user.
Should I forget speed up the Mac and plan to buy a new computer?
readersinc wrote:
Should I forget speed up the Mac and plan to buy a new computer?
It really depends on if you like throwing money at problems or if you want to try to improve what you already have. A newer Mac is usually faster, but you won't have it.
2 GB of RAM is a bare minimum to 10.11 as State of Apple in the requirements...
Update of OS X El Capitan - Apple Support
Any computer running on the bare minimum will have problems to do several things - you should simply stop all applications running in the Dock.
Activity monitor is not intended to be used as you describe - if you force quit the wrong process or app, the computer may hang, become unstable, or losing your data. Please stop looking at that and try to kill the process, it is intended to help you to diagnose the current state, force quit is not designed for this.
You can buy more RAM for your Mac, allowing him to perform tasks more, otherwise you'll have to accept that it is better to do one or two tasks & quit other open applications.
An Apple store may help you if you need advice on the installation of RAM, I think that this model can support up to 32 GB (Apple 16 GB of State, but the newer RAM modules are larger & seem to work) but you should check the model identifier in system information. That appears under the Apple menu, hold the option key & open the Apple (a.k.a alt key).
RAM is normally easy to ride, but you can get a technical person to do it for you. There are user guides made by Apple for the RAM Assembly in each model.
Slow can also be caused by other software or slow hard disks. You want to create a report to show what is installed? Etrecheck is designed to do this...
P.S. Apps like Clean My Mac & Mac Keeper will use more RAM, so that they won't really help your situation. Most of their tasks seems useless to me.
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