I have a previous generation Macbook, the plastic white one with the glossy screen. It's got 10.4.11 installed and decent insides.
It ran like an African olympian when I first got it, now it's as slow as a sloth on a sugar crash.
It's got 64 gigs of hard drive space left and I don't leave programs running in the background.
Is there anything I can do to speed the thing up?
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http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Your_Mac
hope this helps
hope this helps
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You could have some random startup processes or something. On mine, installing the HP printer drivers/utilities for the printer at my house actually installed 5 different background processes, one of which decided to eat up half my CPU time doing literally nothing useful. Check the activity monitor to see what is eating up your resources.
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At those specs, I would suggest you limit it to 40 processes or under. ... OR under 10% CPU usage when idling.
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