Hi,
I hope you all are having a great day and a lovely easter.
I was hoping if any of you would be able to point me in the right direction. Note: This is a bit long!
I bought my 13" MacBook Pro in Feb 2012, with OSX Lion installed. It has never really been stable since the day I bought it. I don't have AppleCare either.
Basically, I keep getting the BeachBall spinning for ages, but I can click around a bit but nothing new will open nor will it actually do anything. It's just stagnent. The only way to resolve it is to force shutdown via holding down the power button for a while (which I absolutely hate doing).
It never comes with a crash message, but I've once left it to maybe think about what it wants to do, and decided to stay that way for more than 40 minutes. I try to Force Quit, and that does not work at all. It lets me force quit, but nothing closes.
I've noticed the crashes generally occur to Google Chrome. I've never uninstalled it or changed to using Safari or FireFox as I don't really like it. Basically my partner's Macbook from 2008 is even more stable than mine and can go for months without a shutdown. The most mine has ever done is: 4 days.
Here's the specs I've got:
Macbook Pro 13" early 2012 edition
OSX version 10.7.5 (Lion)
- 2.8 GHz i7
- 4GB memory
What I've done so far to tackle the problem:
- Reinstalled OS Lion
- Installed the Latest Java
- Done a whole bunch of system/permission repairs via Disk Utility
- Reset PRAM and SMC
It's not like this computer uses heavy processes either. It freezes randomly, but always when I've got multiple tabs open on Chrome.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch and definitely thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Ashley
I hope you all are having a great day and a lovely easter.
I was hoping if any of you would be able to point me in the right direction. Note: This is a bit long!
I bought my 13" MacBook Pro in Feb 2012, with OSX Lion installed. It has never really been stable since the day I bought it. I don't have AppleCare either.
Basically, I keep getting the BeachBall spinning for ages, but I can click around a bit but nothing new will open nor will it actually do anything. It's just stagnent. The only way to resolve it is to force shutdown via holding down the power button for a while (which I absolutely hate doing).
It never comes with a crash message, but I've once left it to maybe think about what it wants to do, and decided to stay that way for more than 40 minutes. I try to Force Quit, and that does not work at all. It lets me force quit, but nothing closes.
I've noticed the crashes generally occur to Google Chrome. I've never uninstalled it or changed to using Safari or FireFox as I don't really like it. Basically my partner's Macbook from 2008 is even more stable than mine and can go for months without a shutdown. The most mine has ever done is: 4 days.
Here's the specs I've got:
Macbook Pro 13" early 2012 edition
OSX version 10.7.5 (Lion)
- 2.8 GHz i7
- 4GB memory
What I've done so far to tackle the problem:
- Reinstalled OS Lion
- Installed the Latest Java
- Done a whole bunch of system/permission repairs via Disk Utility
- Reset PRAM and SMC
It's not like this computer uses heavy processes either. It freezes randomly, but always when I've got multiple tabs open on Chrome.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch and definitely thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Ashley