I recently bought a lightly used 2017 MacBook Pro. It has 8GB of ram, 256GB SSD. I had wiped it and upgraded to the latest firmware.
It's incredibly slow. In fact, it's slower than my mid-2012 Macbook Air with 8gb ram and a full SDD (128gb) that I just sold last week.
Any ideas? I'm not running any more applications than I had with my MacBook air. Could it just be the OS?
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities> Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.
Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
if no improvement or resolve—
To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this trusted utility http://etrecheck.com
If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.
You can set its preference to "Allow full Disk Access", with this you get a digest of issues from the last 7 days that are saved in your system.
Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities> Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.
Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
if no improvement or resolve—
To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this trusted utility http://etrecheck.com
If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.
You can set its preference to "Allow full Disk Access", with this you get a digest of issues from the last 7 days that are saved in your system.
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