Hey MacRumors people: Longtime reader here, but don't tend to post. But I could use your advice.
I have a 13" late-2011 Mac Book Pro running Yosemite, and use is as a secondary machine for doing my graphic design work, primarily InDesign, Photoshop, and web browsers. Lately, the thing has been unbearably slow. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? It's got 4 gigs of ram. I see Crucial has a 16 gig upgrade kit, but they're out of stock. And I don't know enough about ram to pick out the right type without using their "Crucial Advisor Tool". I'd like to max it out at 16 gigs, if possible.
Can you A) point me to another good source of the correct ram I'd need, and B) give any other suggestions for speeding it up? The system is already pretty lean (i.e. not much in the photo library, no music or videos... I really just use it as a work machine with the Adobe CC suite.
I'd really prefer to fix it up and keep it running a little longer rather than buying a new MBP (much as I LOOOVE the retina display on the newer ones.)
Thanks for your help.
—T
I have a 13" late-2011 Mac Book Pro running Yosemite, and use is as a secondary machine for doing my graphic design work, primarily InDesign, Photoshop, and web browsers. Lately, the thing has been unbearably slow. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? It's got 4 gigs of ram. I see Crucial has a 16 gig upgrade kit, but they're out of stock. And I don't know enough about ram to pick out the right type without using their "Crucial Advisor Tool". I'd like to max it out at 16 gigs, if possible.
Can you A) point me to another good source of the correct ram I'd need, and B) give any other suggestions for speeding it up? The system is already pretty lean (i.e. not much in the photo library, no music or videos... I really just use it as a work machine with the Adobe CC suite.
I'd really prefer to fix it up and keep it running a little longer rather than buying a new MBP (much as I LOOOVE the retina display on the newer ones.)
Thanks for your help.
—T