I’m running El Capitan 10.11.6. I have installed all the extra memory it can hold. I used to use Ice Clean to make it run faster but now it doesn’t seem to function anymore. Any suggestions for an app I could run to improve the performance.
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El Capitan should not perform unacceptably slowly on that Mac. If the onset of slow performance did not coincide with installation of any new software (doubtful, since there is no new software for that Mac) then I would suspect hard disk drive failure.
They can be replaced, preferably with a solid state drive. If you should choose to do that there is only one vendor worth considering: OWC / MacSales. With a SSD startup drive your Mac will run better than it did when it was new. However, nothing will compensate for the fact it won't work with the majority of websites today, or even most email services for that matter. Its hardware simply cannot cope with recent encryption and security protocols, "recent" meaning anything incorporated in the last few years.
El Capitan should not perform unacceptably slowly on that Mac. If the onset of slow performance did not coincide with installation of any new software (doubtful, since there is no new software for that Mac) then I would suspect hard disk drive failure.
They can be replaced, preferably with a solid state drive. If you should choose to do that there is only one vendor worth considering: OWC / MacSales. With a SSD startup drive your Mac will run better than it did when it was new. However, nothing will compensate for the fact it won't work with the majority of websites today, or even most email services for that matter. Its hardware simply cannot cope with recent encryption and security protocols, "recent" meaning anything incorporated in the last few years.
mycooker wrote:
I used to use Ice Clean
I am not familiar with Ice Clean, but "cleaners" are infamous for corrupting the Mac's system and producing obscure errors.
I'd suggest using a SSD (unless you are already using it) and doing a clean install to it (first backup if necessary).
The 20" and 24" Mid 2007 Macs had two-core Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme CPUs, used mechanical hard drives, and officially could take at most 4 GB of RAM. (Unofficially, they could take 6 GB.)
The USB ports ran at USB 2.0 speed, and the internal hard drive interface was a 3 Gbps SATA-II (not SATA-III) one.
One of the CPUs used in these machines was the Core 2 Duo (T7700). That one has Geekbench scores of about 252 (isingle-core) / 404 (multi-core).
https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-2-duo-t7700
For comparison, the slowest version of the 24" M4 iMac scores 3721 and 13716. That is, nearly 15x faster on the single-core benchmark and almost 34x faster on the multi-core one.
well it's getting close to 20 years in age, sort of impressive it has lasted this long
webpages today and apps today have sizes and requirements which may result in older computers with non SSD harddrives and less system memory and slower cpus may all struggle with keeping up the pace
I have a 2007 desktop that runs slowly
