| I've had my 17" MBP for about 18 months (I think). 2.86GHz C2D, the last one before they switched to the i series. When I first got it it was unbelievably fast, click Photoshop icon and it was open in three seconds. Now, even with nothing else running, just turned on (nothing set to run on startup) it takes 15 seconds just to open Chrome. Plenty of spare HDD space, it's just been rapidly losing performance since I got it and is now slow to the point of being unusably annoying. What can I do to make it go quicker? |
Making a Mac faster?
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Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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dominalien 10,703 posts
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Registered 15 years agoMake sure in Disk Utility that your HDD is not dying.
Make a time machine backup, get an SSD. -
Kosmoz 8,184 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBuy it a treadmill. -
Chuck it over the window. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoUninstall iTunes. -
I've got the same MBP as you (certainly had it for the same length of time) and it is as fast as the day I bought it. Are you sure you don't have a million things running at startup? -
warlockuk 19,519 posts
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sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPeople still use Macs these days?!?! o_O -
sport wrote:
People still use Macs these days?!?! o_O
... oh wait
I know it is a fairly isolated and non-scientific cross section, but at the (pretty large) university where I work, the percentage of mac to windows users (in terms of new undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, and researchers arriving with laptops/desktops or buying kit from their research grants) is very surprisingly now about 40/60 in favour of Windows. However, the Mac user base is increasing at such a rate that we expect it to be a 50/50 split soon enough. This is a massive change from only 5 years ago when central computing services effectively dropped all mac support - they are having to do some pretty speedy back-pedalling at the moment!
The iPod/iPhone/iPad stuff is making a significant change to the flavour of computer that people are choosing, I just wish I had bought shares in Apple when I first started supporting them in the heady days of OS7! -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agotincanrocket wrote:
sport wrote:
People still use Macs these days?!?! o_O
... oh wait
I know it is a fairly isolated and non-scientific cross section, but at the (pretty large) university where I work, the percentage of mac to windows users (in terms of new undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, and researchers arriving with laptops/desktops or buying kit from their research grants) is very surprisingly now about 40/60 in favour of Windows. However, the Mac user base is increasing at such a rate that we expect it to be a 50/50 split soon enough. This is a massive change from only 5 years ago when central computing services effectively dropped all mac support - they are having to do some pretty speedy back-pedalling at the moment!
The iPod/iPhone/iPad stuff is making a significant change to the flavour of computer that people are choosing, I just wish I had bought shares in Apple when I first started supporting them in the heady days of OS7!
Apple computers are for image-conscious pricks with an inflated measure of self-importance, which is why so many students have them
/looks across desk at MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad
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Dirtbox wrote:
I don't think he was speaking about the world wide Mac/Win ratio.
40/60? Well no, according to Google Analytics 13% of the internet is on a mac, 81% is on Windows and the rest are on various blends of linux, unix and mobile phones.
Don't let me burst your frankly bizarre balloon with facts though. -
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mrharvest 5,718 posts
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Registered 18 years agoBackup your HDD and do a clean install. Then after the install, make an image of it so you can get back to speed without spending half a day at it. -
KayJay 5,350 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDirtbox wrote:
40/60? Well no, according to Google Analytics 13% of the internet is on a mac, 81% is on Windows and the rest are on various blends of linux, unix and mobile phones.
Don't let me burst your frankly bizarre balloon with facts though.
I don't think he's talking about the whole world DB.
"I know it is a fairly isolated and non-scientific cross section, but at the (pretty large) university where I work"
But anyhow, 81% on Windows. Shit. That is a lot. o_O -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSyrok wrote:
Dirtbox wrote:
I don't think he was speaking about the world wide Mac/Win ratio.
40/60? Well no, according to Google Analytics 13% of the internet is on a mac, 81% is on Windows and the rest are on various blends of linux, unix and mobile phones.
Don't let me burst your frankly bizarre balloon with facts though.
I was outraged about what he *wasn't* saying. -
HitchHiker 2,892 posts
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Try clearing out the Cache files. Run through the housekeeping in Onyx and clear the following cache directories -
/Library/Caches
/System/Library/Caches
/Users/(Your user)/Library/Caches
Then reboot. -
Sounds fucked to be honest, tried reinstalling the OS? -
sport 17,064 posts
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Fucking hell, I can't even see the tracks anymore. -
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kj66246 wrote:
But anyhow, 81% on Windows. Shit. That is a lot. o_O
I would not have been surprised if it was higher. I'm sure I remember figures in the 90+% bracket before apple figured out how to actually sell stuff again.
... oh wait
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