I watched the recent WWDC keynote where Apple launched a bunch of new products. One of them was the high end mac aimed at the professional sector. This was a computer designed to process hours of high definition video footage for movies/TV. As per usual, they boasted about how many processes you could run at the same time, and how they’d all be done instantaneously, compared to the previous model or the leading competitor.
Meanwhile my 10 year old iMac takes 30 seconds to show the File menu when I click File. Or it takes 5 minutes to run a simple bash command in Terminal. It’s not taking 5 minutes to compile something or do anything particularly difficult. It takes 5 minutes to remember what bash is in the first place.
I know why it couldn’t process video footage without catching fire, but what I truly don’t understand is why it takes so long to do the easiest most mundane things.
I’m not working with 50 apps open, or a browser laden down with 200 tabs. I don’t have intensive image editing software running. There’s no malware either. I’m just trying to use it to do every day tasks. This has happened with every computer I’ve ever owned.
Why?
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Something to try; create a new profile, log into it and see if you have the same problems. A fresh profile can determine if you have extensions installed that are stealing CPU time. If things work faster/better then you may be able to identify processes in your own profile that are using an inordinate amount of CPU power.
Run [MalwareBytes](https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac), thankfully you don’t have to purchase the maintenance but it’s not a bad service. If you do have some questionable installs it should identify and quarantine them.
If the system runs just as sluggish under the new profile then you may wish to reinstall the OS.
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