greg0205
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iStore on Alice Lane or you could go to DigiCape in Illovo.
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Help for an old MacBook Pro
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iStore on Alice Lane or you could go to DigiCape in Illovo.
wezzcoetzee
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iFix etc won't do it.
It will take you 20-30 minutes to do by yourself and you'll save quite a lot... Check the guides I posted...
Otherwise you'll have to find some laptop place that will do it for you and charge you like R1000 labour, your choice...
The Intel Core i5-460M @2.53GHz Processor was released in Q3 of 2010
Unless you time traveled, in that case. Welcome.
Edit: And that was 1st Gen, so its impossible to get an I5 back in 2006/7
Unless you time traveled, in that case. Welcome.
Edit: And that was 1st Gen, so its impossible to get an I5 back in 2006/7
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Like I said, with the specs you gave us it couldn't have been 2006/7. This is not a bad thing
RAM is an easy upgrade, replacing the SSD isn't particularly difficult either.
This site - https://www.ifixit.com - will give you easy to follow, step-by-step directions.
Guys, I can only tell you what I know, and I promise you - that's when we bought the laptop. It's possible that we took it in to get fixed/upgraded at some point after that (I will have to ask my husband), but we bought it on 2006 (or early 2007). That much I know for certain.
I really don't want to do it myself. Surely there are companies that do this sort of thing? That's all I really need to know. Happy to pay.
I really don't want to do it myself. Surely there are companies that do this sort of thing? That's all I really need to know. Happy to pay.
If you go to the Apple menu in the top left corner and select "about this Mac" it should give you the exact model.
After that go to System Report and on the first screen give us your Model Number.
koffiejunkie
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OP, I have the model directly after yours. I put in 16GB RAM (which is now quite cheap, even at the current ZAR rate) and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. It flies! After 4 years, it's held up a lot better than my previous MBP did after 4 years.
If you get an SSD, make sure you install TrimEnabler and enable Trim on the drive.
If you get an SSD, make sure you install TrimEnabler and enable Trim on the drive.
dunkyd
Executive Member
Son had same problem.
Discovered he never cleared emails. 4800 !
Never cleared Google search history...thousands of pages.
Sorted in an hour.
Speedy and now as good as new.:thumbup:
Discovered he never cleared emails. 4800 !
Never cleared Google search history...thousands of pages.
Sorted in an hour.
Speedy and now as good as new.:thumbup:
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
I don't think email has anything to do with it. Mine is fine.
And that is only my personal email account.
dunkyd
Executive Member
worked for us…………..
koffiejunkie
Executive Member
Yeah, I have 3000 odd in my inbox and roughly 32000 in folders in my account . Work mail has about double that.
That said, newer versions of Mail.app don't slow down like older ones did. Older versions - I don't rememer when this changed - stored some stuff in sqlite files, which grew over time. Simply doing an "sqlite3 /path/to/file VACUUM" in the terminal worked wonders.
But slow mail won't slow down your entire laptop.