I got my wife a new 13" MacBook Pro... well actually I got it on Craigslist, but it's mint. It's the i7 2.3 GHz model from the Feb 2011 release.
I noticed it was lagging pretty bad a lot of the time... frequent beachballs, general sluggishness. Since both of my Macs are SSD and this one had a 320 gig drive, I thought some of it was my own perception.
Since she wanted more disk space anyway, I put a 1 TB drive in it and upgraded the RAM to 8 gig, then did a fresh Lion install, and restored everything via Time Machine.
It runs better, but still lags sometimes. Like this morning, she tells me that she'll be typing in Word (2011), and it either lags really bad... type stuff, and after a bit, the text appears... or the text will never appear. She also said it's started doing it in Skype.
The only stuff running right now is Word, Skype, Pandora (in Chrome) and iCal. She's pretty savvy so I know it's not a user issue.
Other than this odd lagging, the thing runs fine. It's fast when it isn't lagging. She uses QT7 to convert videos to and from various formats (she works for a casting agency), and says the machine hauls butt compared to her old Dell.
But I'm worried about the lagging. I'm considering doing a total wipe and reinstall everything by hand, in case there was something leftover from when we first got it, that might be causing this. It has AppleCare good til 2014 so we're covered there.
Any ideas on things I can look at or try? Thanks.
Rob
I noticed it was lagging pretty bad a lot of the time... frequent beachballs, general sluggishness. Since both of my Macs are SSD and this one had a 320 gig drive, I thought some of it was my own perception.
Since she wanted more disk space anyway, I put a 1 TB drive in it and upgraded the RAM to 8 gig, then did a fresh Lion install, and restored everything via Time Machine.
It runs better, but still lags sometimes. Like this morning, she tells me that she'll be typing in Word (2011), and it either lags really bad... type stuff, and after a bit, the text appears... or the text will never appear. She also said it's started doing it in Skype.
The only stuff running right now is Word, Skype, Pandora (in Chrome) and iCal. She's pretty savvy so I know it's not a user issue.
Other than this odd lagging, the thing runs fine. It's fast when it isn't lagging. She uses QT7 to convert videos to and from various formats (she works for a casting agency), and says the machine hauls butt compared to her old Dell.
But I'm worried about the lagging. I'm considering doing a total wipe and reinstall everything by hand, in case there was something leftover from when we first got it, that might be causing this. It has AppleCare good til 2014 so we're covered there.
Any ideas on things I can look at or try? Thanks.
Rob
