Re: What could be causing a slowdown across the board?

"Jamie Kahn Genet" <jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:1ih33jz.18rogzx5kka42N%jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On a 1st generation Aluminium 24" 2.8GHz iMac running 10.5.2:
>
> Menus open after a couple seconds or more. Switching apps results in
> several seconds or even up to 30 seconds in some cases of the spinning
> beachball. World of Warcraft is jumpy. Etc, etc.
>
> I experienced this on the second of three 24" iMacs I had, but that one
> was a serious lemon of course. This slowness on my third 24" iMac is new
> and extremely annoying
>
> I have enough HD space (little less that 100GB out of 500), CPU usage is
> nowhere near maxed, memory usage is not maxed, drive activity is nothing
> to write home about.
>
> I've tried running all daily, weekly, and monthly housekeeping, I've run
> Disk Utility (nothing wrong), fixed permissions (most minor of problems
> found and fixed), cleared caches...
>
> Could it be overheating? Fan speed right now is 1666rpm, CPU A is
> currently at 49º celsius, GPU is 61º... hmmm... power supply is 81º - is
> that normal?
>
> Also - does anyone ever find on any Mac that stacks open immediately and
> smoothly? Or the same with the dashboard? Or Exposé? The only places
> I've seen these things work smoothly and responsively are Apple
> keynotes.

This is only one of the reasons that I don't use a mac.