Wildman496
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I have a late 2008 13in. aluminum MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5.8. It used to run extremely well and software would open immediately but within the last 2 weeks software has been taking a long time to load and will sometimes freeze completely(no beachball) and other times the beachball appears. When it freezes without the beach ball it won't start moving again(I have waited for 20 minutes for it to start moving to see if it was just some incredible lag) so the only option is to push the power off button. Around the same time the internet began slowing down to an insane amount when using a browser(I have tried using both Firefox and Safari since this happened, usually I use Firefox.) to the point it takes 30-40 seconds to open a new web page. It isn't the internet as download speeds are the same as they were prior to the slowdown.
Not sure why this happened as I can't recall any big changes, unless it might be VMWare which I installed to run Windows around then(I don't believe the slow down happened immediately after VMWare install) however its rarely running so I'm not sure if that could be it since it isn't in use and doesn't show up on Activity monitor. Just in case it was VMWare, I put it on my external and deleted it from the computer but there has not been a noticeable difference since then.
Misc. info:
* Processor: 2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
* Memory 2 GB 1067 MHZ DDR3
* Free Memory: 62.5 GB
* Number of Cores: 2
* Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
I have tried Disk Utility (Verified & Repaired both permissions and normal), and a program called Onyx which I saw a lot of suggestions to use on the Apple site at times like this and nothing shows up as wrong. CPU usage according to Activity Monitor is normal and with a widget that monitors it, it never really goes above 40% and usually hangs out around 18% so I don't believe its that. I would say it was just age except that it just happened suddenly(it was literally from one day to the next).
There are no odd sounds coming from the machine and temperature is the same as it has always been.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Not sure why this happened as I can't recall any big changes, unless it might be VMWare which I installed to run Windows around then(I don't believe the slow down happened immediately after VMWare install) however its rarely running so I'm not sure if that could be it since it isn't in use and doesn't show up on Activity monitor. Just in case it was VMWare, I put it on my external and deleted it from the computer but there has not been a noticeable difference since then.
Misc. info:
* Processor: 2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
* Memory 2 GB 1067 MHZ DDR3
* Free Memory: 62.5 GB
* Number of Cores: 2
* Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
I have tried Disk Utility (Verified & Repaired both permissions and normal), and a program called Onyx which I saw a lot of suggestions to use on the Apple site at times like this and nothing shows up as wrong. CPU usage according to Activity Monitor is normal and with a widget that monitors it, it never really goes above 40% and usually hangs out around 18% so I don't believe its that. I would say it was just age except that it just happened suddenly(it was literally from one day to the next).
There are no odd sounds coming from the machine and temperature is the same as it has always been.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
