Yosemite made my computer unusable!

Poisonivy326 · Dec 21, 2014

2012 old fashioned MBP here. It has an SSD that I put in plus 8 GB RAM I also put in. Updated to Yosemite tonight and biggest mistake ever. Beach ball every other second, pages crash, my computer is practically useless!

Anyone else have this problem?

blooperz · Dec 21, 2014

Try a clean install, i.e not through the app store....it might fix the problems.

Poisonivy326 · Dec 21, 2014

How do I do a clean install when I've already installed it?

yjchua95 · Dec 21, 2014

Poisonivy326 said:
How do I do a clean install when I've already installed it?

Download the installer from the App Store and use DiskMakerX to create a bootable Yosemite installer in a USB stick.

Start up from the USB stick and open Disk Utility to erase the internal drive.

After that, install OS X into it.

Poisonivy326 · Dec 21, 2014

Is it possible it's the SSD I installed? It's a Samsung 500 GB EVO.

yjchua95 · Dec 21, 2014

Poisonivy326 said:
Is it possible it's the SSD I installed? It's a Samsung 500 GB EVO.

It's possible regardless of any third party hardware you have installed.

Cristian · Dec 21, 2014

Plus 1 for a clean install. It helped me out tremendously on my mid 2011 iMac.

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