Macbook Pro Is Very Slow
Macbook Pro Is Very Slow Posted on: 05.10.2012 by Marguerite Truka got a macbook pro with an 2.3 ghz i5 and 8 gig of ram. Its allways runned slow compared to windows or any linux distro but now it is crawling and causing audio drop outs. Any suggestions of what I can do. Used activity monitor the window manager doing nothing is using 11% cpu at times firefox around 33%. | |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 07.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tombruton69
I use Techtool which I boot from my external USB drive as a separate partition and it always feels like i'm using a new computer after you do all the scans and optimizations. |
| Syreeta Piela 06.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tombruton69
Back up all of your files with time machine Buy a new internal hard drive - I'd recommend the Seagate Momentus XT 750gb Hybrid drive (I've got this in now and my mac runs like lightning) Install the new drive and import all of your files over time machine (Loads of tutorials on Youtube for swapping out hard drives and how to clean install) This should sort you out |
| Marguerite Truka 05.10.2012 | got a macbook pro with an 2.3 ghz i5 and 8 gig of ram. Its allways runned slow compared to windows or any linux distro but now it is crawling and causing audio drop outs. Any suggestions of what I can do. Used activity monitor the window manager doing nothing is using 11% cpu at times firefox around 33%. |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 07.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tombruton69
I use Techtool which I boot from my external USB drive as a separate partition and it always feels like i'm using a new computer after you do all the scans and optimizations. |
| Marguerite Truka 06.10.2012 | im going to upgrade to a ssd when the 500gig ones come down under 150 quid. I never restart any of my laptops apart from updates. SO my mac was restarted a few days ago. The disk has been full but g tot 140 gig free now. Apple say you dont need to defrag there systems is there a way |
| Janyce Henningson 06.10.2012 | If you can't find what's draining the cpu, I'd try a fresh install of the OS before you buy a new hard drive - there might be something running you can't locate - and it saves you forking out for a new HD if it solves it. |
| Syreeta Piela 06.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by tombruton69
Back up all of your files with time machine Buy a new internal hard drive - I'd recommend the Seagate Momentus XT 750gb Hybrid drive (I've got this in now and my mac runs like lightning) Install the new drive and import all of your files over time machine (Loads of tutorials on Youtube for swapping out hard drives and how to clean install) This should sort you out |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 06.10.2012 | Verify your disk and repair disk permissions .. |
| Johnetta Olewine 06.10.2012 | I had some drama with an app (notably Paragon NTFS) sucking the life out of my macbook. Fucked it off and its all good now. |
| Rena Estabrook 06.10.2012 | Should be a fast machine. My guess is a hard drive issue. Verify your disk. |
| Minda Verges 06.10.2012 | Do you put you computer to sleep more often than you do shut it down? If so, that could be the problem. |
| Celine Surico 05.10.2012 | Sounds weird, that should be a wicked fast system. How much disk space do you have left, VM needs 10-20Gb or so? You are not running Flash content maybe, that chews CPU cycles like crazy on any system. |
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