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13" '10 Laggy, Bogs and stutters...

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whyrichard

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Aug 15, 2002
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Hello,

I've got an early '10 2.26 13" macbook pro, the only upgrade to it so far has been a 500gb WD blue hd.

The thing has some persistent lags, stutters, and beachballs.... it's become a pain in the butt to use.

Sometimes typing, just typing, laggs and stutters. right now i have chrome, safari, adium, ical, evernote and skype open, and it still acts like an ancient computer.

i have verified and repaired the disk... no significant improvement. there were errors but they got repaired. ....

what is slowing down my computer? how to fix/diagnose it?

it "only" has 2 gigs of ram... should i install more?

thanks,

r.
 
Not to hog your post or anything, but my '09 has been pretty crappy as of late. It's a replacement, too.

I do a lot of cleaning with lots of different programs. Onyx, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, Disk Utility. I run them once every week to the fullest.
 
none of these programs should be necessary... none of my other macs needed that type of maintenance....

how much ram to you have? should a 13" macbook pro be able to run minimal software well on 2 gigs of ram?!

r.
 
there is no early 2010 MBP13 with a 2.26ghz CPU and 2gb RAM. That is the late 2009 model. The mid 2010 model has a 2.4ghz CPU and 4gb ram.

2gb of ram might very well be a cause here, because it is barely enough. An upgrade to 4-8 gb might improve things a lot here.
 
:eek: Stupid question here: How did you clone the drive when you upgraded it?

If it wasn't cloned correctly, then it will lag as it searches all over for the data it needs.
 
The problem is your hard drive. Something in WD drives does not play well with some Macs-I have a 500GB WD as well and made it into an external backup drive because I had the same issues. I believe it has to do with a conflict in WD and Apple's shock sensing features, and the result is the drive stutters.

I replaced it first with a 500GB Fujitsu and most recently a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT and neither of these drives caused any problems.
 
Sounds like your harddrive actually, if you dont need all that space, Id opt out for an ssd, and add ram. It should make it work 2x faster.
 
Deffo hard drive. I had the same thing with that exact same drive - and notice I have the same system as you.

It was always powering down. Although it would power up in a second or two, it led to the system being really annoying to use.

I ended up putting the old one back in an investing in an external backup drive.
 
That's a sign of your hard drive dying.

It should be mentioned, I have upgraded quite a few Macs with WD drives, and I have not seen a general issue with them when used in Macs(besides quality maybe).
 
pscraig said:
The problem is your hard drive. Something in WD drives does not play well with some Macs-I have a 500GB WD as well and made it into an external backup drive because I had the same issues. I believe it has to do with a conflict in WD and Apple's shock sensing features, and the result is the drive stutters.

I replaced it first with a 500GB Fujitsu and most recently a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT and neither of these drives caused any problems.
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It's not WD drives. I have a WD Scorpio Black 7200rpm 320GB drive and it works perfectly on one of my 2010 13" MBP's.

This issue sounds more like a bad clone copy or lack of memory due to the processes in use.
 
Heilage said:
That's a sign of your hard drive dying.
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If I clean my MBP thoroughly with Onyx, SLCC, etc. and I still have constant beachballs and lockups, is mine dying, too? I ran TechTool Deluxe and it said nothing's wrong, although I know it isn't always accurate.
 
designgeek said:
:eek: Stupid question here: How did you clone the drive when you upgraded it?

If it wasn't cloned correctly, then it will lag as it searches all over for the data it needs.
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i believe it was a fresh install... of a snow leopard disk...

r.
 
pscraig said:
The problem is your hard drive. Something in WD drives does not play well with some Macs-I have a 500GB WD as well and made it into an external backup drive because I had the same issues. I believe it has to do with a conflict in WD and Apple's shock sensing features, and the result is the drive stutters.

I replaced it first with a 500GB Fujitsu and most recently a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT and neither of these drives caused any problems.
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i also heard of this... and i heard somewhere that you can disable either the hd sensor or the built in mac sensor...

anyone know how to do this?
r.
 
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