[Ti] Slow finder on a 17" Al

[Kim Gammelgaard]

To me it actually just sounds like bad or mis-seated RAM. Try to take out
your RAM and put it back again, or have a look at how much RAM the machine
claims it has in the System Profiler.

My guess is that if you open the Terminal and type w and push return you
will get load averages with values way larger than 1.00, as what is taking
time isn't CPU-usage, but swapping due to lack of RAM.  Here is what I get:

[kgani at Kim-Gammelg-rds-computer:~] % w
13:00  up 2 days, 18:13, 1 user, load averages: 0.24 0.49 0.57
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
kgani    console  -                Wed18   1day  -

Good luck!

Kim

On 12/03/04 9:03, "khyber courchesne" <courchesne at onebox.com> wrote:

> LISBETH, Its very hard to pin down.  Because this computer is a few days
> old, I called Apple and the tech wasn't able to offer a solution.  I have
> since installed a fresh copy of panther, and the problem is still there
> right out of the box. The apple discussion boards have threads that are 200
> long with problems that are either identical or similar.  Most pin the blame
> on one of the recent security updates, 10.3.2, or a crash monitor that can
> be disabled in terminal or console or something.
> 
> It is frustrating to be so excited about getting a new machine and have
> something as basic as the Finder pretty much DOA.  Because the 17 inch is
> amazing to behold.  I wish it worked.  Sigh.