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MacBook Pro 15in late 2011 is so slow it has become useless. Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) 2.2 GHZ I7. The beach ball spins when opening programs, e-mails etc..Apple told me to reset SMC which fixe issue for a few days before slowing down again. Help.

MacBook Pro 15 in late 2011 is so slow it has become useless. Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) 2.2 GHZ I7. The beach ball spins when opening programs, e-mails etc..Apple told me to reset SMC which fixed issue for a few days before slowing down again. Plz help. Steve

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), reset of SMC works for approx 3 day

Posted on Sep 12, 2013 11:23 PM

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Sep 12, 2013 11:29 PM in response to stephenfromnv

There are as many reasons for a slow computer as there are solutions.


Take a look at ds store's - Why is my computer slow? - for some useful tips.


What you describe, however, sounds as if it just might be a failing hard drive. Boot into your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys whilst booting) and use Disk Utility to verify and, if needed, repair your boot volume.


Clinton

Sep 13, 2013 1:47 PM in response to stephenfromnv

Back up all data immediately as your boot drive may be failing.

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).


Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:


☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)


☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.


☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.


Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).


The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.


A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.

MacBook Pro 15in late 2011 is so slow it has become useless. Software OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) 2.2 GHZ I7. The beach ball spins when opening programs, e-mails etc..Apple told me to reset SMC which fixe issue for a few days before slowing down again. Help.

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