Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Date: 23 Jul 2015 17:06:50 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <2015072307182152788-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <230720151036546236%nospam@nospam.invalid> <2015072308541526320-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> <230720151207151507%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net zuNRYAr0cS5Rggq90DtxqQY/vQ6jblD01PgMfomyFCoLmZe3Xz Cancel-Lock: sha1:5wdI5yQhQTVEe1qO34/7f48KM9g= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:78040 On 2015-07-23, nospam wrote: > In article <2015072308541526320-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca>, Tom Evans > wrote: > >> I figure a new, replacement Imac would be better than an external drive >> because I don't have enough computing power. My 2011 Imac frequently >> slows, so I have to keep on quitting Chrome and Photoshop and logging >> out and logging in to clear the slowdowns, > > quitting apps and certainly logging out/in will have no effect on a > slowdown. That seems like a pretty silly statement considering you know next to nothing about the particular issue he is experiencing. It may very well be that something running while he is logged in is causing decreased performance and logging out and back in may clear up the issue. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR