early 2011 15" MBP (my iphone works better)

[howm]

Try transmission as the torrent client. It's about the lightest weight client for OS X out there. 35% CPU for a client is ridiculously high.

Moved to qBitTorrent yesterday, that one is taking up to 10% so its much better. Transmission is lacking in features as far as I know (thats why its the lightest) and can't handle lots of torrents if I remember correctly.

It looks like it's the torrents that is affect his MBP's performance. I do think anything more than 10 tabs is abit too much but it's your choice.

I never have anything more than 10 because it's just not possible for me to look at those tabs at the same time. For work? Maybe ... when I have to refer to each tab.

If you look at the Activity Monitor... the more tab you have...the higher % for CPU usage.

I can certainly conclude that your MBP is not faulty... it's your usage that's affecting it.

If you need more power than maybe you need a custom build PC or Mac Pro.

I do understand that more tabs draw more CPU. My question is where is typing lag coming from with 4 tabs and a torrent client running (total of 30-40% CPU usage)?

I think I need a custom PC too, and I am buying a new one real soon. I think I will just sell this MBP for what its worth after I get my PC.

 

[doug in albq]

OP, the sad truth is that the OS is killing your computer. Tim Cook loves to entice you to buy new hardware with his OS "updates."

You should have kept that machine on Mountain Lion. All 3 later OS's suck, especially on not-brand-new hardware.

I have a 2010 15 MBP with 8GB ram and a 256SSD, with Mountain Lion, and my laptop is as fast as the day I bought it--no, it is faster because of the SSD.

 

[howm]

OP, the sad truth is that the OS is killing your computer. Tim Cook loves to entice you to buy new hardware with his OS "updates."

You should have kept that machine on Mountain Lion. All 3 later OS's suck, especially on not-brand-new hardware.

I have a 2010 15 MBP with 8GB ram and a 256SSD, with Mountain Lion, and my laptop is as fast as the day I bought it--no, it is faster because of the SSD.

I think this might be true, the funny part is that I upgraded yosemite to el capitan just yesterday haha(after reading some article saying its much better than Yosemite and that you have to update OS to keep your machine running as fast as possible).
Its possible to do a fresh install of Mountain Lion I believe? Might try that sometime.

 

[snaky69]

Moved to qBitTorrent yesterday, that one is taking up to 10% so its much better. Transmission is lacking in features as far as I know (thats why its the lightest) and can't handle lots of torrents if I remember correctly.



I do understand that more tabs draw more CPU. My question is where is typing lag coming from with 4 tabs and a torrent client running (total of 30-40% CPU usage)?

I think I need a custom PC too, and I am buying a new one real soon. I think I will just sell this MBP for what its worth after I get my PC.

If you don't use any fancy features, why bother with a client that offers them? I've had no problem with 30+ torrents running at the same time with it. It supports magnet links, allows to set priority, seed ratios, encryption and all that jazz. That's pretty much the only thing I'll ever need.

 

[gngan]

I actually did experience lag when I have more torrents (uTorrents). Once I quit the app then everything is back to normal. I have an early 2011 13'' too. I have the latest OSX without issue too.