iMac responsiveness has randomly dropped.. alot


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I have only had my iMac a couple of day's.. it's the 21.5" 3.6ghz - 500gb hdd from the Apple store.

It's had no more than a couple of hours use,

I turned it on last night and noticed it's just not very fast anymore... just little things such as:

- loading web pages

- scrolling is choppy and lags

- the latest forum activity at the top of this page has a lag when it automatically updates as i'm writing

- adium has a delay when i press enter sending a message to it actually appearing, and it seems choppy as the fade effect makes it appear

- maximising/minimising has a delay and seems slighty choppy

All i have really installed is Adium, World of Warcraft, Logic Pro 9 and some audio units, i still have over 400GB space.

I'm a total Mac n00b so i don't know where to start like i would in Windows. Can anyone offer any advice? where would u look if you were having this problem?

Are there any tools i can download? or tools readily available?

Thanks :)

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Not good. :/

In my three years of owning a Mac I only experienced 1 kernel panic and it was rarely powered off.

It should be pretty easy to have a software fix, I'd expect a fix by the end of the month

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turn off the wifi and turn it back on, it's a known issue :( It should be fixed soon

Tried that and it worked. It's super fast again! weird

and thanks :)

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Looks like it's definitely a software fix, since it's supposedly fixed in the latest seed of 10.6.2.

From the seed note:

AirPort

- Resolves a performance issue on new iMacs.

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