MacBook Pro mid 2010 freezes constantly

[Acorn]

Christmas is coming up. You could ask for apple gift cards for Christmas. then sell your core 2 duo for 700 ish. hopefully you will get 300 in gift cards and with the money from the core 2 duo you can buy a refurbished 2.5 ghz i5 for 1024.00

anywho. my parents would never buy me something that costs 300+ dollars. so i always ask for apple gift cards and sell the old hardware.

 

[blatopilot]

Whats wrong with Chrome?

I don't know what is wrong with Chrome. I like Chrome...but something is off with Chrome for Mac. A fresh install performs okay, but over time, Chrome seems to break things.

If I need to troubleshoot any issue on my Mac, I uninstall chrome first. Often I noticed an improvement even if its not related to browsers or Flash...It's easy to reinstall so its an easy troubleshooting step.

 

[wickedking94]

Christmas is coming up. You could ask for apple gift cards for Christmas. then sell your core 2 duo for 700 ish. hopefully you will get 300 in gift cards and with the money from the core 2 duo you can buy a refurbished 2.5 ghz i5 for 1024.00

anywho. my parents would never buy me something that costs 300+ dollars. so i always ask for apple gift cards and sell the old hardware.

Sell my shiny? Never! Even if this caught fire and was useless I wouldn't get rid of it! Its my preciousssssss.



Its working good now that I've done a clean OS install.

 

[wordoflife]

Sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.

Its that stupid Core 2 Duo its such an old piece of crap. The first Core 2 Duo's came out in 2006. im using 6 year old hardware in a 2 year old machine.

The first Core 2 Duos that came out in '06 are very different from the one in your machine. The one you have is nearly as good as the new i5s that are coming out. You would not notice a different in performance unless you did some sort of rendering.

Something was wrong with your OS, which would've caused the same thing in a newer machine.

The good part about your machine is that it has Nvidia graphics and can be downgraded all the way to Snow Leopard (best OS evaaa)

 

[wickedking94]

I wanted to go back to SL but its not supported enough for a lot of my video and animation software.

 

[andymac2210]

I used the same computer for 2 years and never had a single problem with it.

Granted, I did use an SSD for most of that time.
Most 'slowness' problems come from the HDD, it could be dying now, those laptop HDD's die all the time and it's a painful death too.
Days and weeks of programs hanging, crashing, beachballing and doing weird stuff.

If you notice stuff on the dock bouncing for a long time, it's time to suck it up and buy a new HDD.

 

[wickedking94]

I used the same computer for 2 years and never had a single problem with it.

Granted, I did use an SSD for most of that time.
Most 'slowness' problems come from the HDD, it could be dying now, those laptop HDD's die all the time and it's a painful death too.
Days and weeks of programs hanging, crashing, beachballing and doing weird stuff.

If you notice stuff on the dock bouncing for a long time, it's time to suck it up and buy a new HDD.

Actually the HDD in my MBP is only 6 months old. I harvested it from a portable HDD. Works pretty fast actually for a HDD 80 Mb/s read 75 Mb/s write. My original got like 35 MB/s read 30 Mb/s write.

Believe me if I could afford it I would put an SSD in my MBP. Im considering putting a 64GB one for my OS where my dvd drive is.