Mac Book Pro too slow
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- hektor911
Hello guys, I bought a Mac book pro
a year ago and its been pretty slow lately, taking
forever to open a raw photo and so on.
It has 4 gb of ram and I mostly keep
All my files in an external hard drive, to keep
it light. Any clues?
- pastpastdue0
Disk utilities to fix permissions, empty cache folders, run OnyX
- is onyx for free?hektor911
- Yes. Free.nato
- yeah. use it all the time.VectorMasked
- hektor9110
Can you guys sent me a link where I can download onyx?
- ok_not_ok0
applejack
- VikingKingEleven0
work off your local drive. use your external for storage and scatch disk.
If you can upgrade to 8GB. Are you doing any 3D stuff? You might want to turn off the GL option under the performance preferences.
- jaylarson0
also even when you just verify permissions, you clean out the inactive ram. i find this can help in a pinch.
- joshtrix0
I upgraded to 8 gig from 3 and it made a huge difference, might help
- raf0
How do you connect the external drive? If it's USB, it's going to be slow. Work off local files, as VikingKingEleven said.
Check Activity Monitor for RAM usage, you'll know what's eating up the memory.
- Boz0
check for viruses as well
- chrisRG0
this widget helps a lot
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus…
- Daithi0
http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac
Worth every penny
- animatedgif0
Check activity viewer, is there any process running away? Shitty drivers for scanners and printers are common culprits.
How much space do you have free on your main drive?
Do you leave web browsers open with flash banner ads looping in them for days?
Something is amiss, 4 gig of memory and a year old laptop should be plenty for what you are doing.
- desmo0
Try not to have so many apps running at the same time. Or have 30 browser tabs open. I know there is a need to multi-task but keep it in moderation. I find this helps a lot with how fast my computer will respond.
- mg330
I just ordered new memory for mine yesterday - meant to do that two years ago and fortunately a 4GB pack only cost $55 at Crucial for my older MBP.
But, when Lion comes out, I'm seriously thinking about reinstalling everything from scratch.
- Hombre_Lobo0
maybe its time to try windows!!!!!
- hektor9110
Ok so, everything is wiped out I used the clean my mac software, it did cleaned bunch of stuff however the problem persists. I'm starting to think this is something for the guys at apple?
- Do you have iStat? You should be able to see what processes are causing the problem http://www.islayer.c…spot13
- inteliboy0
could be bad ram.
or a setting in the app you're trying to run -- I know AE had a hissy fit recently because i had the scratch/ram settings completely wrong.
- maikel0
I know the one you really really REALLY want.
- hilchev0
switch to PC, I did...