This is an interesting one... Any ideas Cheers f Begin forwarded message: > From: Mike Abiuso <abiusom@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 1 May 2012 13:58:40 EDT > To: Frank Birch <fbirch@xxxxxxxxxx>, Rye Daleman <djdaleman@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: imac help? > > Hey, so my brother just barely was able to afford a used iMac. Its the > aluminum one 20 or 21" with a core duo chip and 250 gig HD (and upgraded to > 4gb ram aftermarket?). > It only had windows 7 so we formatted the HD, ran the verify disk etc and > then he installed snowleopard 10.6.x. > While running those verify disk apps, it seemed to be inconsistent (one time > froze up, the other time only took 5-10 mins). > Now even with the fresh install of OS snowleopard it still seems to be > running like a PC, freezing and inconsistent etc… > Ideas? > Bad HD or RAM? > > > Mike > > > > Subject: Re: imac help! > From: coryabiuso@xxxxxxx > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:30:01 -0400 > To: abiusom@xxxxxxxxxxx > > so i did what you said and it worked but when it got to the intro it was > extreamly laggy(freezed, speed up then froze again) then when i got to the > home screen it was painfully slow, the apps would take forever to load up and > everything seemed laggy, i cant find an answer and i called apple and they > wanted to charge me $60 for the problem if they fix it witch i dont have $60 > so please help! > > Sent from my iPhone >