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Is my new quad i7 too slow?

theromanone said:
Thanks again for the reply's so far everyone!

That's my biggest point, as to I didn't see this kind of lag whatsoever in windows opening control panel, switching applications (no matter HOW many apps I had open), opening the standard word processing program (word was almost instant in windows, and I have a core 2 duo 3 year old computer, 4GB ram!)

Just opened pages for the first time after restarting, took about 6 seconds. Again, I can live, just annoying after spending $3000 .
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I'll tell you I just swapped out the 750GB 5400RPM HDD in this 15" I7 early 2011 MBP to a Crucial 128 M4 SSD plus changed out 4 GB 1333 MHz to 8 GB 1600 Mhz a few days ago.

The change is dramatic. Loading iTunes now takes less than a second where before it was MUCH longer. Do yourself a favor if speed is important to you... get an SSD and increase your RAM. You'll thank us later.
 
Just installed the 8GB ram, powerpoint opened in about 2 seconds with everything loaded, everything else seems to be fine now.

I'll report back after a few days of use.
 
10k300 said:
I got a 5400 RPM Toshiba 750GB with my 2.3 QC 2011 MBP

I immediately extracted it and replaced it with a Vertex III SSD

This Toshiba is probably the nastiest/slowest most disgusting 2.5" SATA drive I've ever seen. Even upgrading to something like a Hitachi 7K500 will give you an AMAZING upgrade in speed
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Maybe you're right. Mine feels slow too.

Mine is a MBP Core i7 2.4 17" 8GB RAM Late 2011 with:
Capacity: 750,16 GB (750.156.374.016 bytes)
Model: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF
Revision: GQ006B
Serial Number: 91MZCMWCT
Rotational Rate: 5400

Anyone else that feels that it's slow ? Please put your MBP config including HDD here.

Thanks
 
cariocap said:
Maybe you're right. Mine feels slow too.

Mine is a MBP Core i7 2.4 17" 8GB RAM Late 2011 with:
Capacity: 750,16 GB (750.156.374.016 bytes)
Model: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF
Revision: GQ006B
Serial Number: 91MZCMWCT
Rotational Rate: 5400

Anyone else that feels that it's slow ? Please put your MBP config including HDD here.

Thanks
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What would the point of that be? We already know that particular HDD is slow and the HDD is the slowest part of your computer. Do you think this is some mystery that calls for Scooby Doo and the rest of the gang to investigate?
 
theSeb said:
What would the point of that be? We already know that particular HDD is slow and the HDD is the slowest part of your computer. Do you think this is some mystery that calls for Scooby Doo and the rest of the gang to investigate?
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Hi theSeb,
Good morning. How you doing ?

My idea was to compare HDD specs with other guys that are not having problems with slow MBP.

Oh, and welcome to my ignore list. You deserve.

Regards,
Abel
 
theromanone said:
Just installed the 8GB ram, powerpoint opened in about 2 seconds with everything loaded, everything else seems to be fine now.

I'll report back after a few days of use.
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Can you reboot and check the startup time of powerpoint again? I can't imagine how a RAM upgrade would improve program start times.


@cariocap
I looked up a few benchmarks for the Toshiba HDD. The performance seems ok, above average for 5400 rpm HDDs.
 
thundersteele said:
@cariocap
I looked up a few benchmarks for the Toshiba HDD. The performance seems ok, above average for 5400 rpm HDDs.
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Yes, I was reading too a few benchmarks of Toshiba and it´s on average performance.

One detail, I installed windows 7 (bootcamp) on my MBP and it seems faster (more responsiveness) than Lion, so the bottleneck isn't the HDD.
 
thundersteele said:
Can you reboot and check the startup time of powerpoint again? I can't imagine how a RAM upgrade would improve program start times.
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Depends what else is running. If OS X is short of free RAM then it will start paging, which will slow the application load process.
 
cariocap said:
Maybe you're right. Mine feels slow too.

Mine is a MBP Core i7 2.4 17" 8GB RAM Late 2011 with:
Capacity: 750,16 GB (750.156.374.016 bytes)
Model: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF
Revision: GQ006B
Serial Number: 91MZCMWCT
Rotational Rate: 5400

Anyone else that feels that it's slow ? Please put your MBP config including HDD here.

Thanks
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TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF here. 500GB on the 2.0GHz Core i7 Early 2011.

I don't think it's slow at all. My drive is filled to the rim with 2 partitions. OSX has 100GB free and Bootcamp with Windows 7 64-bit has 60GB free. Both Windows 7 and Lion run equally fast.

But I have 16GB of RAM as well, so perhaps that lifts things up quite a bit.
 
Rebooted and still getting a fast(er) powerpoint open around 2 seconds for everything to load to where I can actually click on the program to make selections, same as Word.

Still getting instances where system preferences gets me 4 seconds to open, but rarer. Again, this is with just safari, word, itunes, and maybe ppt open. no youtube, flash, etc used.

Also, took 8-9 seconds to open (admitedly 12-tab excel file) a 356kb excel file with excel not opened beforehand. Programs opened at the time were onifocus, preview (light pdf), skim, chrome, and safari. no flash, just text websites. CPU was 96-99 percent idle.
 
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cariocap said:
One detail, I installed windows 7 (bootcamp) on my MBP and it seems faster (more responsiveness) than Lion, so the bottleneck isn't the HDD.
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Win 7 uses prefetch to speed up application load times. They do it precisely because they recognized the HDD as bottleneck a few years ago.

Don't know what else to say... if you think the performance is better with Win 7, you are free to use that OS.
 
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