It turns out that the slowness problem on my Mac Pro was caused by following Apple’s automatic instructions and using the Migration Assistant program to transfer my data to the Mac Pro from my old Power PC G4 Power Mac.

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The Mac Pro is slow

February 15th, 2007

No, the computer itself isn’t slow but many aspects of the user interface are, and after the initial euphoria of the new Mac it’s beginning to annoy me a lot. Where Windows dialogs snap onto the screen many Mac windows and dialogs appear to pause for a moment before responding to your request, as though they’re considering whether they really want to do it or not. The whole user interface just has a slightly “slow” and unresponsive feel to it compared to XP. On my old G4 Power Mac I simply assumed this was the slow processor but this doesn’t seem to be the cause. At least, I don’t think the Mac Pro with its four processor cores running at 2.66GHz can be accused of being underpowered here…

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