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I have a new 2019 iMac with 8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest-end 8Gb iMac from last year.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Could it be misconfigured somehow that makes it truly unusable?

Update

If this performance is because of the hard disk then you are saying that Apple is selling a configuration of iMac (in early 2020) that is hopelessly misconfigured. It's as if they were selling a computer with a 128Meg disk or with 1Gig of memory. Can that actually be?

I have a new 2019 iMac with 8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest-end 8Gb iMac from last year.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Could it be misconfigured somehow that makes it truly unusable?

I have a new 2019 iMac with 8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest-end 8Gb iMac from last year.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Could it be misconfigured somehow that makes it truly unusable?

Update

If this performance is because of the hard disk then you are saying that Apple is selling a configuration of iMac (in early 2020) that is hopelessly misconfigured. It's as if they were selling a computer with a 128Meg disk or with 1Gig of memory. Can that actually be?

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I have a new 2019 iMac with 8gig8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest end 8Gig-end 8Gb iMac from last year.

Before you say "then you can't expect it to be fast" let me tell you how slow.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Would Apple sell a computer soCould it be misconfigured somehow that makes it is truly unusable?

I have a new 2019 iMac with 8gig of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest end 8Gig iMac from last year.

Before you say "then you can't expect it to be fast" let me tell you how slow.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Would Apple sell a computer so misconfigured that it is truly unusable?

I have a new 2019 iMac with 8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest-end 8Gb iMac from last year.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Could it be misconfigured somehow that makes it truly unusable?

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New iMac unbelievably slow

I have a new 2019 iMac with 8gig of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest end 8Gig iMac from last year.

Before you say "then you can't expect it to be fast" let me tell you how slow.

With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.

This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.

I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.

Does anyone have a clue?

Would Apple sell a computer so misconfigured that it is truly unusable?