If you log out of a user then takes ten minutes to log back into the user particularly if it has been days since you were in it. The computer has not been running great for some time, particularly switching users, even switching or opening apps, opening a menu in an app to find a iPhoto, sending print jobs to label printer, slows down in all cases, get beach ball sometimes too.įigure there are are three options, make adjustments to software (cost my time), hardware ($85-220) or new computer($1700).Īny hot tips on the the software side to try to speed up things or best practices for multi users? I have found it better to leave both logged in but to quit open apps before switching to the other user.

Predominantly used for Safari, MS Office, iPhoto, GarageSale (ebay listing app) and Blurb Book making Set up with two user accounts (mine and my wife's), Time Machine enabled MacOS 10.14, 8GB Ram, 1 TB standard hard drive (about half full) Seeking insights on what we should do about our 'slow' Apple iMac 'Core i5' 2.7 21.5-Inch (Late 2013)

Apple imac 27 late 2013