My slow MPB
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- nylon
My MBP is from 2009 and a pretty sturdy machine.
That said it is slow as fuck...
I upgraded to 10.7 ages ago from the app store so technically don't have the startup disks anymore.
Is there anything I can do to make it run better i.e. first aid? That said I don't have the disks so can't start up form the cd
Any help would be great
- monospaced0
I hear that if you bad mouth Steve Jobs things get better.
- nylon0
Nah its not his fault... Its just getting bait old...
- whereRI0
got same issue, do a lot of repair permissions and what not but i think its just a little tired
- monospaced0
There's always the usual suspects, one of which you already pointed out (adding RAM). Others include cleaning your desktop, going into your User System Preferences and removing any startup apps you don't use/need anymore, running a disk permissions repair, and clearing off the hard drive if it's close to full. Hope that helps.
- monospaced0
I hopped on my father's Mac the other day and it ran super slow too. He had all this 3rd party shit running all the time, which was eating up his processing bandwidth. He also had tons of fonts installed. I helped him remove the truly unnecessary shit (animated desktop, some other really dumb crap) and the unnecessary fonts. He also had TONS of files on his desktop. I just tossed them into his Documents folder and rebooted. The result was instantly noticeable; his computer was faster.
- cbass990
I use this shit and it seems to help from time to time...
- rootlock0
add a ssd drive. You probably have a 5400 rpm drive. I threw one in my 2009 17 inch and was a huge upgrade.
- spot130
rule of thumb = never upgrade osx to a newer version as apple doesn't factor old hardware into new releases
- Not entirely true, often a new update will run faster on older hardware but require more RAM — so make sure you've got enough RAM.evilpeacock
- that's not entirely true at allmonospaced
- raf0
Max out RAM, add SSD (either replace your hdd or add it via optibay) and it will feel like a new computer.
- evilpeacock0
All of the above are good suggestions, but more than anything else if you only have like 4 GBs of RAM and lots of apps running all the time you would benefit from more.
SSD upgrade = big win, but is expensive compared to upping RAM.
File and application clutter or build-up affects all operating systems. Removing unused files and apps and cleaning up can do a lot and is generally a good idea. You have to clean your computer just like you have to pick up your room/house/apartment. You can test this in action by creating a new user and logging in as that user only — I bet everything will seem faster.
10.8 is much better than 10.7, faster too.
- nylon0
Evil Peacock - does 10.8 effect CS6 so to speak?
- Works fine for me at home and we use CS5.5 at with 10.8 at work with no problems as well.evilpeacock
- ArmandoEstrada0
As stated above, max out RAM, Install SSD, fresh install 10.8. SSD drives was best investments i have made in computing.
I took out my Optical drive and moved my platter drive to the optical bay slot as extra storage for crap that I dont care if i lose.http://eshop.macsales.com/item/O…
SSD drive prices are falling fast, check amazon.
- Christian0
Once a month: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac…
Once a week: http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccle…Runs like new.
- omg0
buy a new computer...