This is a spinning hard drive, but a brand new Mac. Fortunately, as others have suggested, it settled itself in after a day or so and is now running lightning fast. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish What kind of disk are you using, SSD or regular rotating/. Also is this a new IMAC or a used older model? Thank you > On Mar 20, 2017, at 9:55 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > I had tested out the $999 21 inch iMac running Sierra in the Apple Store, and > it had run with impressive speed and responsiveness. > Applications opened quickly, web pages loaded quickly, and there was no lag > or "busy signals" at all. > I purchased the unit, and set it up with my Apple ID and iCloud account, > there were a couple of software updates, so the machine restarted twice. > > It is not as fast ore responsive as in the Apple store. There are occasional > pauses or delays. > > It is interesting, I have a 3 year old MacBook Air that is just as fast as > the day it was purchased. > Yet, this new iMac is not quite running as smoothly as I would have expected, > especially after having seen it running so beautifully in the Apple store. > > Any suggestions at all for tweaking this Mac to run as might be expected? > Thanks a lot. > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
