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How to simulate slow internet connections on the mac
What's a good software solution to slow down internet connections on the mac for testing and simulations?
My primary need is when testing code in the iPhone / iOS simulator, so slowing down the ...
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iMac shows frozen at bootup, but computer running normally in background
I'm on an Intel iMac running Lion.
I'm having major issues with my iMac. The iMac froze whilst using Chrome, and I was forced to reset it.
After the reset the screen seemed to freeze on the apple ...
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What are the Best Ways to Speed Up a Mac?
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro and although it seems to be working fine, over time it has seemed to become more sluggish and less snappy / responsive. So is there any good ways ways that I can 'speed up' ...
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What's slowing down my Mac?
I have the following mac:
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB
It has a HDD, and I have 240GB out of 1TB free space.
I'm on OS X El ...
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My MacBook is slow recently. How do I fix this?
My MacBook has become very slow recently and not because of any software update. But it just became suddenly slow. Logging in to my account takes 2 minutes and even opening a terminal window takes a ...
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MacBook Pro 2017 Geekbench Before and After Spectre and Meltdown Patch
I was just wanting to see the impact on speed due to the patches for the recent Intel CPU Bugs.
I have run the update already, but was wondering if someone could run a Geekbench test on macOS 10.13.1 ...
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Would Upgrading to 16GB RAM be Beneficial?
I'm running on an i3 processor, 2010 model, 3.06 GHz.
I'm currently have 4GB of RAM, but if I were to upgrade to 16GB, would:
Applications open quicker?
FPS increase in game?
Overall performance ...
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MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately
My MBP (2.66 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) is about two or so years old. It's been running like a champ for most of its life. However, within the past few months, I've noticed a considerable degradation ...
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Emulating lower speed CPUs on Mac mini
I would like to ask whether it is possible to develop OS X application (especially for Lion) on a Mac mini, being able to test how the performance would be on a lower speed CPU. For example: ...
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2010 Mac Pro beachballing/freezing
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any ...
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Can Turbo Booster (3rd Party Application) damage your CPU?
I have turbo booster installed on my old macbook pro which I currently use to handle files between my iMac Pro and the macbook. The macbook has a base clock of 1.4 Ghz turbo boost upto 2.3 Ghz. On ...
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Suggestions to make a old Macbook Pro faster?
I got a Macbook Pro I think the year 2010. How can I make it faster because,it starting to get slow. Are there Free or Inexpensive Apps or tricks to make it fast?
Thanks!
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What could be the cause? I/O completely died. Constant spinning, even logging in takes forever
iMac 5K, late 2014 model. The weirdest thing happened yesterday. This machine is usually very performant — 8GB ram, 3TB Fusion drive. I dual-boot Windows on it using Boot Camp.
As of now, I still have ...
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How to have clipboard holding many entries available simultaneously...?
I am looking for:
There are many hot words which I often need to type while using my Apple MacBook Pro/Snow Leopard like say my desktop machine name, some other host names etc. Now, right now, I copy ...
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Mac OS X 10.6.7 freezes on restart
I recently got a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.7. I installed the software update that was available, and when I tried to restart it, it seemed to be going well until it froze on the original space ...
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Computer is generally slow, Applications take 10 seconds - 3 minutes to launch, websites take 5-15 seconds to load, etc
I don't know why but my computer is generally slow. Some examples are:
Applications take 10 seconds - 3 minutes to launch, depending on which application.
Websites on the internet (all browsers) take ...
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Mac has become insanely slow : Processes SystemUIServer, UserEventAgent and loginwindow using a lot of memory
I have been using my Mac for for many months without any problem. But recently all of a sudden the Mac became insanely slow.
I opened Activity Manager to see what was happening. For three processes ...
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Can the performance of MacOS Extend Display between Macs be improved by cable connection?
I have a M1 Mac Studio from which I "Extend Display" to a 16" M1 MacBook Pro, via the setting "Use As Separate Display". The connection happens over Wi-Fi, and the wireless ...
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What is the best way to show the speed of copying files on a Mac?
I'm using macbookpro 16inch, Catalina 10.15.5 . I connect to my external SSD drive (SAMSUNG T5) from usb-C to usb-C. When using drag and drop in finder , it took 5 sec to copy a 1,47 Gb file. I need ...
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Every several minutes, all my open windows re-adjust their content and text layout
Every several minutes, my computer nearly halts as it all the windows have their content re-adjusted. It seems as though all the text, at least, is being re-rendered. Perhaps the entire window's ...
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OSX El Capitan freezes after connecting to SMB share
Why does OS X El Capitan freeze after it connects to an SMB share? The OS will successfully connect to the remote SMB share and mount it. After a short time passes, the Finder freezes and the entire ...
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Mac Mini has slowed to an unbearable crawl!
I've read a lot of other questions about speed, but my question does not seem to be answered anywhere. My Mac Mini is running so slow that I cannot see what I am typing. It takes up to 15 seconds to ...
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Does showing a flashing time separator slow down a Mac?
Is there any reason to be concerned that showing flashing time separators would slow down my Mac, since the computer now has to keep flashing the separator? What about showing seconds? Why or why not?
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2010 2.66 GHz 12 core Mac Pro not utilizing all 24 threads?
I just recently purchased a 2010 Mac Pro.
I am wondering why all 24 threads never go past 50% usage when doing CPU intensive tasks.
My coworker has a 2009 2.93 GHz 8 core Mac Pro and we both tried ...
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iMac 10.15 Catalina takes 2+ hours to boot
One of the 12 iMacs here has a big problem: it takes two hours or more from pressing the button to turn it on until finally ditching the progress bar and showing up the desktop.
It is a MacOS 10.15 ...
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MacOS Sierra how to reduce priority of iCloud drive sync?
I have an older Macbook air and since upgrading to Mac OS Sierra get major performance issues. I see over 1000 threads in activity monitor and am trying to understand if it is due to iCloud drive sync ...
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Mac freezes after login
My mac laptop freezes after I login with correct password. All I see is my wallpaper. after that the rainbow thing starts spinning.
I tried to start in safe mode but that didn't help either. I also ...
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How to diagnose repeated OS X hang / spinning ball of death?
I got this error with everyday tasks. I tried verifying disk, permission. fsck -fy - files has been modified, then disk is ok. I repaired keychain.
Do you have any idea what causes this problems? ...
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Is it possible to reserve exact amount of space for the indexing and virtual memory?
Is it possible to reserve exact amount of space for the indexing and virtual memory?
I have Macbook Air with 128 GB SDD (with OS X Yosemite). When I run out of memory (free space less than 1 GB) the ...
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Mavericks 10.9.5 RAM problem and performance problems
Macbook Pro Late 2011, Mavericks 10.9.5 had my RAM consumed up to 2.75 GB (out of 4.00 GB) with no apps running except Finder.
Hard Disk Storage: ~300 GB free out of 500 GB
Creating new, renaming, ...
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