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Macbook Air 2nd gen getting sluggish

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desura

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I've had it for...over a year I believe.

Anyways, it is getting sluggish. Takes like 10+ seconds to wake up from sleep.

Even when I make sure that nothing else is really running.

I didn't know that Apple systems also suffered from install bloat like windows.

looks like they do.

Any advice short of a wipe and reinstall?
 
mmntech said:
Does it have a hard drive or SSD? They didn't go SSD exclusive until the third generation model.
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The MacBook Air has always had SSDs. The first 2 revisions (when they only had the 13", and it had the flip down ports) were using 1.8" ZIF drives which were pretty anemic. The redesign in 2010, which added the 11" model moved to a blade SSD that was reasonably decent, and the latest models are packing Samsung 830s IIRC.

OP, OS X doesn't suffer from the same issues that Windows does, but it would help to know more about what you are doing with the system, and all the system specs.
 
TheStu said:
The MacBook Air has always had SSDs. The first 2 revisions (when they only had the 13", and it had the flip down ports) were using 1.8" ZIF drives which were pretty anemic. The redesign in 2010, which added the 11" model moved to a blade SSD that was reasonably decent, and the latest models are packing Samsung 830s IIRC.

OP, OS X doesn't suffer from the same issues that Windows does, but it would help to know more about what you are doing with the system, and all the system specs.
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There were definitely MBAs with traditional HDs. I have one of them sitting on my desk at work (1.8GHz C2D, I believe).
 
TheStu said:
The MacBook Air has always had SSDs. The first 2 revisions (when they only had the 13", and it had the flip down ports) were using 1.8" ZIF drives which were pretty anemic. The redesign in 2010, which added the 11" model moved to a blade SSD that was reasonably decent, and the latest models are packing Samsung 830s IIRC.

OP, OS X doesn't suffer from the same issues that Windows does, but it would help to know more about what you are doing with the system, and all the system specs.
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SSDs have always been an option but the first and second generation MBAs came standard with 1.8'' hard drives. I think most people probably got the hard drives because SSDs were still crazy expensive at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Specifications

I mention this because adding an SSD, assuming it doesn't have one, would speed up boot and wakeup time considerably.
 
Tegeril said:
There were definitely MBAs with traditional HDs. I have one of them sitting on my desk at work (1.8GHz C2D, I believe).
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mmntech said:
SSDs have always been an option but the first and second generation MBAs came standard with 1.8'' hard drives. I think most people probably got the hard drives because SSDs were still crazy expensive at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Specifications

I mention this because adding an SSD, assuming it doesn't have one, would speed up boot and wakeup time considerably.
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I sit corrected.

If OP has one with an HDD then that would explain why it is slow.
 
Actually what I think is happening is that it's waking up from deep sleep, the mode that lets it boast about 30 days standby time for battery. I'd just have to change the power settings to alter that.
 
desura said:
Actually what I think is happening is that it's waking up from deep sleep, the mode that lets it boast about 30 days standby time for battery. I'd just have to change the power settings to alter that.
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Definitely try was Printer Bandit posted if you haven't already then. If it is a Core i5 with the SSD, it definitely shouldn't be feeling sluggish in regular use.
 
I would check the login items for your account and take a look in /Library/StartupItems
Also create a new user account and see if that account has the same issue.
Run Disk Utility
 
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