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slow el capitan

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    Performance down

    Hi there Yesterday i upgraded my macbook late 2009 to macos el capitan and now having performance issue everything works very slow. my macbook has 2 gb of ram. anyone else experience this issue?
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    External SSD Boot Drive

    I'm currently using a late 2013 imac that is running like garbage. Its a 21" 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, and its running El Capitan. From the moment it boots, its slow. Excruciatingly slow. its using nearly 90% of the physical memory just on running finder. I've tried every...
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    16 GB, clean install, and running slow with El Capitan

    Hi, few weeks ago I was still using OSX 10.7 (lion) with 16BG, and my computer was super fast. It is a Macbook pro 13-inch Mid 2012. Recently I installed the newest OSX 10.11.4 (El capitan), so from 10.7 to 10.11 it is a big leap. I made a clean install, erased the hard drive, then transferring...
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