re: My Mac Book Pro is a complete POS.

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Wow. How hard is it to add memory yourself to a Mac?

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You cant. It's soldered in now.

I went in there to return some headphones and have no idea how anything works there. Didn't know I needed an appointment and sat around for 20 minutes before someone helped me. I felt like everyone else was speaking a foreign language. Then, all the employees started clapping for some dude who walked out of the store -- I guess that's how they wish them well when someone moves on to another job. Place is fricking weird.

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Wow. How hard is it to add memory yourself to a Mac?


You cant. It's soldered in now.

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Frickin apple. I like being to add and remove things myself. I'm a fan of refurbished items as I can usually repair hardware easily.

I am ordering $2100 worth of parts for a Windows computer today that would be the equivalent to $4000 worth of a Mac. Maybe you should've thought about your purchase before dropping that kind of coin on something inferior.


Also, it should have a warranty if it is only a few months old

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I guess I'd just rather not learn the hard way and be stuck with a $1,000+ phone that I can't stand.

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So, you'd rather be stuck with a $1,000+ phone you've admitted is a piece of shite?

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I dropped about $2,200 on a new Mac Book this summer and it is honestly the worst computer I've ever bought. I didn't have any problems with it when I intitionally bought it but now it runs literally in slow motion. I'll be typing and the words will be four or five words behind what I'm actually typing, it takes forever to pull up web pages or download files, not to mention my programs crash all the time.

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Obviously something is fricked up. Take it to an apple store.

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I hate the Apple Store so much. You try to go there and they tell you it's a 12 hour wait unless you have an appointment and then you schedule an appointment and they're booked til 2018. When the day of your appointment arrives you find out they're closed because of transgender polar bear awareness day

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I've made appointments there many times for the next day.

I've had the same MB Pro since 2010. Put a new SSD in it about a year ago and it runs as good as new. Other than that, zero problems. It runs better than all of the newer PCs that my co-workers have.

As others have said, make an appointment at the Apple Store. Have them run diagnostics to see what's wrong with it.

You also need to repair disk permissions every so often with a Mac.

If you're scare of the Terminal (I'm not because Mac OS is Unix-based), you can use the GUI:

Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility/

Select First Aid

Click Repair Disk Permissions button

For me, the easiest thing to do is fire up the Terminal.

Type "sudo su" without the quotes.
Enter your password.
Type "diskutil list" without the quotes.
You should see something like this:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1

/dev/disk0 is the partition scheme
/dev/disk1 is your EFI boot partition
/dev/disk2 is your system's partition <<< This is what you want, but you need to run the command to be 100% positive.

After that, try this:

diskutil verifyPermissions /

If no dice, try "diskutil verifyPermissions /dev/disk2" or whatever you system's drive is labeled.

Once you've run that, run diskutil repairPermissions / or diskutil repairPermissions /dev/disk2 <<< with the correct drive indentifier

You can also repair the volume with the following:

diskutil repairvolume / -OR-
diskutil repairvolume /dev/disk2 <<< use correct identifier

If the device identifier doesn't work with /dev/disk2, you may need to use /dev/disk0 for the whole thing. It has been a while since I've done it on a Mac. I use Linux and BSDs a lot more.