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Q: Yosemite running slow

Hi all,

 

So a little while ago I installed Yosemite on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012). I was foolish enough to do this without a backup of my mac. It's been running extremely slowly since then and doing any task is a pain. Even adjusting the brightness of the screen and turning the volume up and down is very laggy. I reset my PRAM and SMC, didn't enable filevault, and pretty much tried everything else that I read on the forums. I don't know what to do anymore. Also, when starting the computer after it has been shut down, it stops loading at the grey screen with the apple logo at a certain spot every time. In order to get it to turn on I have to do a safe boot, then shut down again, and then the second time it will turn on properly (still takes very long even after the safe boot). I'm not very good with computers and don't know what the problem could be. I got to thinking that maybe the new OS is eating up a lot of the RAM and that i should upgrade my RAM. I have 4GB of RAM and a 500 GB HDD that comes stock in the standard 2012 macbook pro. Any help getting my system to work at normal speeds would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 22, 2014 5:02 PM

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