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Macbook getting slow
Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:33 pm
Let me preface this and say that I am terrible with technology. With that being said, my MacBook is getting slow all of a sudden. I've never had any issues with it and is a 2011 model. Is it just old and crapping out? Or is there something that I can do to speed it up a bit?
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:47 pm to scottyd
put an SSD in it.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:38 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
put an SSD in it.
LINK
Go here, pick out an ssd drive and swap it out. They have videos showing you how. It even made my late 2008 macbook able to function relatively well and run El Capitan
Posted on 1/27/16 at 3:16 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
put an SSD in it.
Last year I put one in my 2009 MacBook. It now runs like a new computer.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:19 pm to scottyd
If you haven't ever done it, try repairing your disk permissions. You can do it one of two ways:
Go into your Utilities folder inside the Applications folder, and open up the Terminal. Copy and paste the following command:
sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
Hit Enter
Type your password
Press Enter again
If you're afraid of using the Terminal, you can just type Disk Utility in the Spotlight (magnifying glass in the top right-hand corner), select your main Drive, click on the tabs until you see a button that says "Repair Disk Permissions" in the lower left-hand corner and let it do its thing.
If you don't repair disk permissions every once in a while, your computer can be slower to boot, slower to open programs (apps) and slower to access files in the directory. Think of it as being akin to a defrag on Windows, yet it isn't moving data. You're just repairing the files within the HFS file system to have the right amount of access that OS X wants it to have in order for the OS to find and execute the files.
If you don't have an SSD, get one, and thank everyone else later. Lastly, you should be able to increase the amount of RAM very easily.
Try the Disk Permissions repair before spending any money. Also, clean out your browser's cookies and cache if it's running slower.
Go into your Utilities folder inside the Applications folder, and open up the Terminal. Copy and paste the following command:
sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
Hit Enter
Type your password
Press Enter again
If you're afraid of using the Terminal, you can just type Disk Utility in the Spotlight (magnifying glass in the top right-hand corner), select your main Drive, click on the tabs until you see a button that says "Repair Disk Permissions" in the lower left-hand corner and let it do its thing.
If you don't repair disk permissions every once in a while, your computer can be slower to boot, slower to open programs (apps) and slower to access files in the directory. Think of it as being akin to a defrag on Windows, yet it isn't moving data. You're just repairing the files within the HFS file system to have the right amount of access that OS X wants it to have in order for the OS to find and execute the files.
If you don't have an SSD, get one, and thank everyone else later. Lastly, you should be able to increase the amount of RAM very easily.
Try the Disk Permissions repair before spending any money. Also, clean out your browser's cookies and cache if it's running slower.
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 9:22 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:05 pm to barry
quote:
Go here, pick out an ssd drive and swap it out. They have videos showing you how. It even made my late 2008 macbook able to function relatively well and run El Capitan
i second OWC. i put a 480gig SSD in my 2009 MBP-17". Under $200. Put in 8 gig while i was at it for beans (can't remember exact amount $35 or so--Crucial aka Micron)
I got the little kit to turn my old internal into external, but i just used a Time Machine backup from a backup drive and then cleaned house to get it up to 450gig available. Upgraded to El Capitan.
It's like a brand-new computer. Super fast. Gonna partition it and use it solely as a Mac/Windows 10 work machine with VMWare fusion. VMWare with crap-arse windows 8.1 would barely run before the hardware upgrades. It was miserable.
eta: unless you've changed batteries recently, you might want to go ahead and throw in a battery while you're at it. The "Puredick" (yes, wtf?) one I just put in works great.
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:35 pm to scottyd
Put in an SSD and 16 gigs of ram. I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro and it runs as fast as new machines.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 3:23 pm to scottyd
ssd and upgrade the ram
Posted on 1/29/16 at 6:51 am to FreddieMac
quote:
16 gigs of ram.
Sucks that the mid-2009/MBP will take only 8gig but even that is plenty for my purposes.
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