Macbook suddenly slow - help?

Rickster said:
That isnt very detailed, are you able to download a program to tell you more?
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Not particularly experienced with Apple. Any recommended programs? About to give DriveDX a try.

airborne said:
Just upgrade the ram and hdd already, the default hdd is slow, like super duper slow, with an Ssd upgrade alone it will fly, you will notice a huge difference.
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Thanks, and that is true. However, I'm looking at a decrease in performance. It was quick and responsive in the beginning, but has changed a lot. That's what I'm trying to resolve.
 
You are going to upgrade the ssd eventually anyway, upgrade that and if it is still slow after that then you have a problem.

I have a strong feeling that with an Ssd the issue will go away.
 
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UrBaN963 said:
Not particularly experienced with Apple. Any recommended programs? About to give DriveDX a try.



Thanks, and that is true. However, I'm looking at a decrease in performance. It was quick and responsive in the beginning, but has changed a lot. That's what I'm trying to resolve.
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Backup important docs and format, then upgrade to the latest version of macos.
 
Okay I downloaded and ran DriveDX and did a Short Self Test. Completed 100% with no errors found. I'll do a full test later, but the drive seems okay.

Think I'll go through my Apps and delete the unnecessary ones and se how we do from there.

SSD Upgrade is a good idea, I'll put it to the boss.
Rickster said:
Backup important docs and format, then upgrade to the latest version of macos.
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I am running 10.12. which is the latest.
 
If only a month old make it iStores problem, let them troubleshoot till they find the problem, it should still be under some sort of tech support warranty.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Okay I downloaded and ran DriveDX and did a Short Self Test. Completed 100% with no errors found. I'll do a full test later, but the drive seems okay.

Think I'll go through my Apps and delete the unnecessary ones and se how we do from there.

SSD Upgrade is a good idea, I'll put it to the boss.


I am running 10.12. which is the latest.
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Check your login items to see if something there isn't slowing things down.
 
bigboy529 said:
If only a month old make it iStores problem, let them troubleshoot till they find the problem, it should still be under some sort of tech support warranty.
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The problem is a lack of resources. No amount of 'troubeshooting' is going to fix that.

Google Chrome is using +-2GB of RAM on my MBP at this point in time.

He's only got 4GB, now you're looking at 2GB for one application and then 2GB left for the OS + ALL THE OTHER APPS.

When RAM is full the machine will page. It will use the HDD for this. As the HDD is terribly slow you'll suffer a huge performance hit.

So basically as said before - upgrade RAM + SSD.
 
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Also check heat.
Apple feeds your CPU stupid pills if the temperature gets too hot. I installed a fan control app that overrides Apple's settings and makes the whole computer run cooler.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

RAM & SSD seem to be the way forward. Starting with RAM as an SSD large enough for me is going to be *** expensive.
 
Advantage you got with that model MBP is that you can still DIY RAM and drive upgrades. Digicape quoted me over R10k for a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM upgrade for my iMac.
 
bigboy529 said:
Advantage you got with that model MBP is that you can still DIY RAM and drive upgrades. Digicape quoted me over R10k for a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM upgrade for my iMac.
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The reason thats so high is you a) want a 1TB SSD and b) the iMac's are a royal pain to tear down from +-2013 onwards. They ditched the magnets that held the screen in place and opted for glue. As a result its incredibly easy to damage the screen when disassembling... They have to build in a buffer for accidents.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

RAM & SSD seem to be the way forward. Starting with RAM as an SSD large enough for me is going to be *** expensive.
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Ssd really is the thing to do first , no amount of ram will speed up a snail hdd but an Ssd with 4gb ram will make the Macbook very nippy indeed, granted 8gb is the ideal baseline for ram.

A 256gb ssd is around R1k these days, any budget ssd from a good manufacturer will be plenty fast.
 
airborne said:
Ssd really is the thing to do first , no amount of ram will speed up a snail hdd but an Ssd with 4gb ram will make the Macbook very nippy indeed, granted 8gb is the ideal baseline for ram.

A 256gb ssd is around R1k these days, any budget ssd from a good manufacturer will be plenty fast.
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Valid point!

Speaking to the boss about it. My main concern on the SSD was the price/capacity issue.

I have a 500GB currently, which is at 373GB used. I'm sure I can remove things from it (there are some movies and large install files I don't need to keep on here) so I'm sure I could bring it down to the 200GB mark (hopefully).

Any idea how bit an OS Sierra w/Office 365 install is? Trying to figure out if a 256GB SSD would actually suffice, thinking with future installs, update etc,
 
UrBaN963 said:
Valid point!

Speaking to the boss about it. My main concern on the SSD was the price/capacity issue.

I have a 500GB currently, which is at 373GB used. I'm sure I can remove things from it (there are some movies and large install files I don't need to keep on here) so I'm sure I could bring it down to the 200GB mark (hopefully).

Any idea how bit an OS Sierra w/Office 365 install is? Trying to figure out if a 256GB SSD would actually suffice, thinking with future installs, update etc,
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There's another way... how much longer on the warranty?

What I did with mine was replace the SuperDrive with a caddy. Installed the SSD in the caddy and married it to the HDD creating what apple refers to as a FusionDrive. You end up with a single large virtual drive with both the speed of the SSD and the storage capacity of the HDD.
 
Rickster said:
MacOS is a very lightweight OS so a HDD would be fine.

Have you formatted and installed 10.12 from scratch?
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I haven't. It's about a month old so I refuse on principal. I think it is more a hardware-is-slow issue more than anything else.

bwana said:
There's another way... how much longer on the warranty?

What I did with mine was replace the SuperDrive with a caddy. Installed the SSD in the caddy and married it to the HDD creating what apple refers to as a FusionDrive. You end up with a single large virtual drive with both the speed of the SSD and the storage capacity of the HDD.
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As above, about a month old so not going to play with internals, bar HDD & RAM.

Nice idea though, I didn't know that but sounds pretty cool.
 
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