Actually mines from 2010.
Intel said:Launch Date = Q3'08
Okay sorry my computer is from 2010 even if the CPU isn't. Why the heck did apple put a 2 year old CPU into this thing?
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Also I'm pleased to report that my MBP can see the full 640 GB. I thought I read somewhere that the maximum this one could use was 500 GB..? Maybe thats the most supported by Apple.
Okay so I agree with those saying my HDD is dying. Makes sense since its as old as my MBP and I use it a ton.
I got a brand new 640 GB toshiba HDD (not sure if my MBP can "see" over 500 GB but whatever). Will do a partition for my OS and Apps.
I'll post results once I've gotten the new HDD in and all my stuff copied over to the new one.
didnt you say that you bought and tried with an SSD?
That was weeks ago. If there was any damage I wouldn't have been able to re-install OSX. And I've run several disk check programs. An it wasn't a "tantrum" it was being fed up with how poorly this thing runs.
because you either are extremely unlucky and got a crappy SSD, or your problem lies elsewhere than a botched HDD.
Also sorry for using the word "idiot" back there. It came out harsh - I apologize.
At least it was a Mac. If it was a PC, it would have spontaneously combusted (knocked my old PC off of a table once it started smoking).
Okay sorry my computer is from 2010 even if the CPU isn't. Why the heck did apple put a 2 year old CPU into this thing?
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Also I'm pleased to report that my MBP can see the full 640 GB. I thought I read somewhere that the maximum this one could use was 500 GB..? Maybe thats the most supported by Apple.
*looks at 1tb drive in my 2008 first gen unibody*
Are you sure you know what you're doing? I'm on a c2d machine and have had no problems like yours at all. After 8gb of RAM and a 128gb SSD + 1TB HDD combo, it's pretty killer.
I've had serious issues with my MBP running very slow and/or sluggish. "Genius" bar hasn't been much help. Here is a screen shot of my Activity Log and clearly there is something running hogging all the CPU usage.
Any help on how to find and get rid of it? Is this some sort of spyware?
Thanks for any and all help.
Oh I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing. I got 98% on a Cisco computer hardware software course and I've been tinkering for 6 years before that.
Anyway the partition trick works. The OS partition gets 85 MB/s read 80 MB/s write and the secondary partition only gets 55 MB/s read 50 MB/s write. Huh.
Still cant get steam to launch so no way to tell if my games work any better
Photoshop launches in about 2 seconds compared to the 10 seconds from before. And now I don't get a ball of death for every little task.
Every single task I try and do on this MBP is a pain. When watching a youtube video, it will freeze every minute for 5 seconds for no reason, it gives me a 30 second ball of death if I hit the play button on itunes, it freezes when I'm typing, It can barely play games like minecraft or garry's mod and half the time it crashes doing that anyway. If I load a webpage with more than one flash ad on it freezes. I've reset the SMC, the NVRAM, checked the RAM for errors, checked my HDD for errors, done a clean install of Snow Leopard, fixed disk permissions, and pretty much every other thing to try and gain any performance improvement, and they've all failed. My MBP used to do all these things without a problem but now its slow and useless.
MBP specs:
2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo
GeForce 320M 256MB
500 GB 5400 RPM HDD (250 GB free)
8 GB DDR3 RAM
OS 10.6.8
Its seriously starting to get on my nerves. My brothers cheap 2.1 Ghz Core i3 laptop is out running my over priced aluminum desk ornament.
Any suggestions to improve/fix my MBP would be greatly appreciated.
No, this is the anti-virus/anti-malware scanner Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Deinstall Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Problem solved.I've had serious issues with my MBP running very slow and/or sluggish. "Genius" bar hasn't been much help. Here is a screen shot of my Activity Log and clearly there is something running hogging all the CPU usage. Any help on how to find and get rid of it? Is this some sort of spyware?
As others have said, that's the Kaspersky Anti-Virus app. You don't need it. Like Mr. Retrofire, I recommend you completely uninstall it. The most effective method for complete app removal is manual deletion:I've had serious issues with my MBP running very slow and/or sluggish. "Genius" bar hasn't been much help. Here is a screen shot of my Activity Log and clearly there is something running hogging all the CPU usage.
Any help on how to find and get rid of it? Is this some sort of spyware?
Thanks for any and all help.