Mac hardware
iMac grinding to a halt
Q My iMac 2012 has a 3TB Fusion Drive, and has recently slowed to a crawl, taking seconds to respond to a mouse click. What’s wrong with it?
by JACK BARNARD
A Before looking for software solutions, ensure you’ve got ample free storage space and run hardware diagnostics to check your Fusion Drive in particular. Third-party utilities such as DriveDx from or TechTool Pro also look at ‘wear’ in the SSD component of a Fusion Drive. Memory used in that has a fixed
