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I'm running a black MacBook 4.1. Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB hard disk drive, bus speed is 800 MHz. It's about three years old in excellent shape externally. I treat this thing like a baby.
It used to run awesome, but now it's super slow at everything. I get the spinning pizza of death constantly. It takes a long time to boot up or load any program, even Safari and iTunes. iPhoto is terribly slow. The Internet doesn't work properly and it reminds me of a buggy PC.
I've formatted it and re-installed Mac OS X 10.6 (with all updates), and I've done the disk repairs process. As an iOS developer this is driving me crazy, but luckily I have an iMac to work on in the day which is fast. I'm ready to format it again, but that didn't work last time. After the last format, I copied back files from an external drive so maybe the offending files were hidden in there somewhere.
Here are the hard disk drive and RAM specifications. It is upgrade-able to 4 GB of RAM.
Hard disk drive: The Fujitsu Mobile MHY2250BH is a 250 GB, standard hard disk drive. Its burst transfer rate is 150 Mbyte/s. This is a 5400 RPM drive and comes with an 8 MB buffer.
RAM: two sticks of 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, speed: 667 MHz.
Just some clarification; when you copy files back from an extenal, does that mean using time machine? Time Machine backs up everything, including system files. If you reinstall and then restore from time machine, it will also bring back your crummy old system files. – Jeshizaemon – 2011-01-21T16:41:57.840
@Jeshii - I copied back my iPhoto Library, iTunes, and Documents folder which is a lot. But I didn't use Time Machine. It was copy and paste. Any idea where these crummy system files are and how to get rid of them. – Aaronium112 – 2011-01-21T17:21:50.860
(As an aside: iPhoto is one of the few Time Machine-aware applications. When using Time Machine backups, then first activate iPhoto and then select "Enter Time Machine" to have a nice integrated Time Machine. So, totally unrelated to your question: you might consider using Time Machine for future backups.)
– Arjan – 2011-01-21T19:43:08.290