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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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IMac slow, before and after clean install, spinning ball?

My 2008 iMac (4Gb ram) was running super slow! Well slower than normal :-))) Lots of spinning beach ball. Backed it up with time machine. Ran Disk first aid and it said drive was OK. Erase HD and ...
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Mac refusing to shut down because of finder?

When I shut down, restart, or update and restart my mac goes about shutting applications down to get ready to turn the computer off as it normally does but after my top bar and desktop icons have gone ...
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Why is a 2.7 GHz iMac slower than a 1.8 GHz MacBook Air?

I have a Late 2015 iMac which has a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 8 GB of memory. I also have a Mid 2012 MacBook Air which has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB of memory. The iMac ...
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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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Ideal iMac For programming (and some photoshop) [closed]

I am going to get a 21.5" iMac. It will primarily be used for Android, iOS, and web development, but may occasionally be used for some photoshop. Any other uses I have for it will be insignificant (...
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