Hey all:

Kind of a weird question, and if this is better suited for a Mac forum, let me know.

I have a big, powerful desktop iMac.

I had a MacBook Pro.

Said MacBook Pro was backed up onto an external hard drive.

When I sold my laptop, I wanted to load up the whole damn thing on my desktop.

So, I did a 'restore from backup' - and now my Mac looks and acts identical to my old laptop.

The problem is the ACT part. My Mac is now slow as hell, and it seems to be running as poorly as my laptop was running before I got rid of it.

The damn thing is a shell of it's former self. I think my Mac is running as a laptop!

Any ideas how to keep all the good from my laptop, yet get my Mac to run as it should?