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We have - Macbook Air 1.1, with installed axis 10.7.5. The brakes are terrible, the former owner has installed a LICENSE package of Adobe CS6 and Final Cut. As far as I can see, these programs are wildly slow on it, but I don’t want to lose the last Illustrator and Fireworks (the license was purchased for our company) for the weekend, because my laptop is under repair. On the same device, a message about the need to reboot constantly began to come out. I'm not a Mac user, so I have a few questions:
1. How can I identify the issue causing the reboot?
2. Is it possible to save the system and optimize for this old man? I would be very grateful for links or instructions.
3. If not, which of the systems is older than this, supports this package (Adobe CS6)
Thank you in advance for good advice.

Answer 1

This is clearly a hardware issue. I remember I got such garbage when upgrading the operatives in poppy mini 2010 ...
And the ideal system for this air model would be MacOS X 10.6.8 no higher.

Answer 2

Without a laptop model, of course, it’s hard to say something, but if my memory serves me, in the first versions there were 1.8 "disks and their life cycle is not very long, because of this, brakes and reboots are possible if the disk dies, it also has 2 to 4 RAM GB is most likely the second possible reason for the brakes, especially such "heavy" programs... You can always make a copy of the system on a time machine by connecting an external hard drive (you will have to format it in HFS +, this is a standard Mac one) and then restore it to another computer, or by formatting the drive and by reinstalling the system on this laptop, and then from this backup, restore the user with all programs and settings.

Answer 3

1. Show what kind of window? (CMD+SHIFT+4, select an area and Enter, there will be a screenshot file on the desktop)
2. We need to see what the Activity Monitor shows
3. All versions above yours support CS6

Answer 4

Write in multiple languages ​​- press the power key and hold

This is similar to the blue screen of death in MacOS. After the reboot, a window is displayed in which it says something like “the system was rebooted after a serious error” and there is a report button in which you can roughly find out the cause of the error. On my old MBP'08, this sometimes happens because of the video chip, which seems to have started to die =).

Answer 5

You seem to be having hardware problems. You need to run Apple Hardware test to determine the cause.
But in general, for such a weak machine, work in Final Cut and Adobe CS6 is contraindicated.