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I got a relatively new MacBook (its just half a year old), I got 8GB ram, 2.8 GHZ i7, running 10.8.2
Lately it's been running super slow,,, most of the time safari is just either lagging or frozen or crashes, it takes forever to close psd, and the whole thing freezes up and takes its time to come back to life,,, other times its running fine... what could be the problem??
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Thank you. The CTRL+SHIFT+OPTION+ON/OFF option works great.
I have tried a few times the Shift, Option, Ctrl Power but my macbook switches on around 7 seconds in.
Any ideas?
Hi, what operating system are you running and what are your macs symptoms please?
Sorry about the late reply.
I have one of the first aluminium unibody macbooks from late 2008, 2.0GHz running on Mavericks now.
The computer itself seems to have slow down, I freed up some hard drive space but still slow.
Opening programs is quite slow and sometimes doesn't respond.
I tried the mentioned Shift, Option, ON/Off but it turns on at around 7 seconds in.
How much free space do you have please?
42 Gb of free hard drive space
What size hard drive do you have? My late '08 has a 250 GB. If that's what you have 42 GB of free space is good. Should have 10 to 15% free. If you installed a 500 GB, let's say, 42 GB would be below what is recommended....below 10%....and could cause big issues.
Dark magic indeed. Well done sir
Hi, I'm experiencing a similar problem. My MacBook Pro 13" mid-2012 running OS X 10.9 started running incredibly slow this monday and will not go to sleep-mode either. I've done a reset of the SMC and NVRAM, repaired disk permissions, deleted caches, and run an AHT which showed nothing. The problems also exist in safe mode. It's a 500 GB hard disk with 110 GB's of free space, which shouldn't be a problem and when running the pmset -g command it answers with 'sleep prevented by apsd, apsd'.
Would you recommend a clean install of OS X or should I simply replace the hard drive? Or might it not be the hard drive that's the problem at all?
I really hope you will answer this!
Thanks in advance.
To AppleFixItGuy: This seems to have fixed my problem. I hope it's permanent. Thank you very much. Have been suffering with slow MAC since adding Maverick 10.9.1 software. Thought that was the trouble.
Well, it's a 160 Gb with more than 40 free.
A big shout-out for the AppleFixItGuy... I did the procedure with my Macbook Pro and had amazing results. Thank you, greatly!
Thanks for this fix, applefixitguy.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I was starting to think something was wrong with my Macbook Pro! The technique worked perfectly!
Your solution worked. Thank you so much!
MacBook Running slow
