my macbook pro has something wrong

[defer09]

for about 2 weeks now my macbook pro mid 2009(2.53 GHz 4 GB RAM, 10.5) has been lagging really bad and getting random spinning color wheels when doing nothing more then typing this.... i have nothing else running and istat says that i have over 2 GB in unused ram.

I reinstalled osx this morning after getting fed up and it did nothing but make it worse... when i called apple care they had me restart the mac while holding command option "P" and "R". she told me it should reset the RAM and fix the problem.....it didnt.

just wondering if anyone has come across this problem and if anyone has a solution. if not then does anyone know how long i would be without my mac if i send it in. thank you

 

[joehahn]

my MBP had similar issues as well. Initially I went and looked at apple's available download to increase performance. There was a hard drive one there and I downloaded that which made a hell of a difference. Also I havent had many problems since upgrading to snowleopard, except for it occasionally pages out like nobody's business.

 

[defer09]

my MBP had similar issues as well. Initially I went and looked at apple's available download to increase performance. There was a hard drive one there and I downloaded that which made a hell of a difference. Also I havent had many problems since upgrading to snowleopard, except for it occasionally pages out like nobody's business.

would u mind posting the link to that?

 

[joehahn]

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/performanceupdate10leopard.html

 

[defer09]

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/performanceupdate10leopard.html

wont let me install it. when i choose the destination my HD is not a choice...

 

[joehahn]

what's wrong with MS office?

 

[scrapple]

your ram could of went belly up..
you can try replacing the ram with someone else's ram to see if thats it

 

[m85476585]

It could be bad RAM or a bad hard drive. Run the Apple Hardware Test.

 

[defer09]

what apple hardware test?

 

[pukifloyd]

It could be bad RAM or a bad hard drive. Run the Apple Hardware Test.

+1
or take it to the store...

 

[m85476585]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

 

[defer09]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

i ran the test and i says everything is good....what next lol i have an appointment for tomorrow

 

[Habitus]

for about 2 weeks now my macbook pro mid 2009(2.53 GHz 4 GB RAM, 10.5) has been lagging really bad and getting random spinning color wheels when doing nothing more then typing this.... i have nothing else running and istat says that i have over 2 GB in unused ram.

I reinstalled osx this morning after getting fed up and it did nothing but make it worse... when i called apple care they had me restart the mac while holding command option "P" and "R". she told me it should reset the RAM and fix the problem.....it didnt.

just wondering if anyone has come across this problem and if anyone has a solution. if not then does anyone know how long i would be without my mac if i send it in. thank you

I'd check the RAM. It may be faulty.

Habitus

 

[Rafalski24]

I had a similar problem with a non unibody MBP 2.4ghz, after apple replaced the hard drive they decided it must be something on the logic board. Anyway after a bunch of trips to the apple store and them sending it off they just replaced the whole laptop.

 

[Winters]

Maybe its the hd, did you check to see if its coming from there ?

 

[sharkync]

Start activity monitor and see if one or more processes are hogging cpu time. I've had a couple of instances where an application had gone screwy and needed to be reinstalled due to conflicts. I was able to pinpoint the culprit(s) using activity monitor.

good luck.