Slow iMac - EtreCheck details provided
My husband has a iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019) that is currently running Sonoma (we haven't moved to Sequoia yet on purpose - see further!). He uses it exclusively for surfing the web and listening to music, and keeping a few documents (like 3-page documents, nothing heavy). There are no programs eating up lots of space. I can't find anything else on it that is making it run SO slowly, but everything is slow - to boot up, to open browsers, to surf, to open iTunes. It's insanely slow. I wasn't sure if I should just downgrade to an older OS version or upgrade to Sequoia at this point - Ventura was at least a bit faster.
EtreCheck says that performance is "poor" but I don't personally know what to do to fix it based on the information provided. Hoping some gurus here had some advice? I've provided a snapshot of the report as well as a link to the entire report. Any advice is appreciated!!
Full EtreCheck Pro Report
Performance:
System Load: 2.03 (1 min ago) 2.03 (5 min ago) 2.06 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O usage: 0.31 MB/s
File system: 63.99 seconds
Write speed: 38 MB/s
Read speed: 38 MB/s
CPU Usage Snapshot:
Type Overall
System: 5 %
User: 17 %
Idle: 78 %
Drives:
disk0 - APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E632 1.00 TB (Mechanical - 5400 RPM)
Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA
disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB
disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1000.00 GB
disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1000.00 GB (Shared by 6 volumes)
disk1s1 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (64.56 GB used)
disk1s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (3.98 GB used)
disk1s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (1.24 GB used)
disk1s4 (APFS) [APFS Container] (13.19 GB used)
disk1s4s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) [APFS Snapshot] (13.19 GB used)
disk1s5 - Update (APFS) (67 MB used)
disk1s6 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (1.07 GB used)
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