Your MacBook Air Runs Slowly
All Mac users want their Macs to be as speedy as the first day they got them, but sometimes that’s not the case. If you find that MacBook Air has that molasses-in-January thing going, you can try a few things before you start pulling your hair out in clumps.
Sudden slowdown
If the slowdown is a recent and relatively sudden phenomenon, it suggests one of the following remedies:
Shut down some running programs. It’s possible that you have too many programs running. This causes MacBook Air to constantly swap data between RAM and the hard drive’s virtual memory, which can really slow things down.
Look for a runaway application in Activity Monitor. In Finder, choose Applications →Utilities →Activity Monitor and look for a process that’s using up a large percentage of the CPU time. If you see one, shut it down (click the process and then click Quit Process).
Uninstall a recently installed program. If the slowdown coincided with a recent program installation, try uninstalling the program by dragging it to the Trash.
Repair the hard drive. Some hard drive file ...
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