I bought a new Macbook Pro about 6 months ago, but I'm really disappointed at its slowness. It seems much slower than my 10 year old Macbook that I replaced. It has a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM. Thoughts?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Hi. When you say slow. Slow running, slow starting? all of the above? Run Etrecheck and post the results here. http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated February 25, 2015 at 10:24:00 PM CST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 139
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.2 (14C109) - Time since boot: 0:5:53
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 498.88 GB (227.03 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS41N
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
[failed] com.adobe.CS4ServiceManager.plist [Click for support] [Click for details]
[running] com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.adobe.versioncueCS4.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.tunnelbear.mac.tbeard.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
[running] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist [Click for support]
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist [Click for details]
[loaded] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
GrowlHelperApp Application (/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app)
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
AdobeResourceSynchronizer Application Hidden (/Applications/Adobe/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.7 [Click for support]
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 [Click for support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.5 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.40.2.0 - SDK 10.8 [Click for support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 15.0.0 - SDK 10.10 Check version
User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.105 [Click for support]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Adobe Version Cue CS4 [Click for support]
Akamai NetSession Preferences [Click for support]
Flash Player [Click for support]
Growl [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 498.88 GB Disk used: 271.85 GB
Destinations:
Time Machine Backups [Local]
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 16
Oldest backup: 2013-03-13 19:20:52 +0000
Last backup: 2015-02-11 15:53:33 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 999.86 GB > (Disk used 271.85 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
8% firefox
6% WindowServer
1% Dropbox
1% mds
0% mtmd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
103 MB ocspd
94 MB firefox
82 MB Finder
69 MB Dropbox
69 MB mds_stores
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
1.47 GB Free RAM
1.54 GB Active RAM
565 MB Inactive RAM
712 MB Wired RAM
1.35 GB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Feb 25, 2015, 10:15:50 PM Self test - passed
Feb 24, 2015, 04:37:02 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/plugin-container_2015-02-24-16 3702_[redacted].crash
And to answer you other question, it runs really slowly. Applications get hung up all the time and I hae to use Force Quit more often than I like. Plus Firefox has told me several times that it's running slowly and I need to refresh it.
Hi. The only thing that jumps out at me is that you could use more memory. You 2012 MBP will handle up to 16 gb of memory. I was looking for high page outs Or software that might conflict. You could use you activity monitor to check cpu spikes and memory drain. Set it for all programs. Some of the programs you are running would benefit from an upgrade in memory. A good place to go to get compatible memory is mac sales .com.http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?sort=pop&model=449&type=Memory Is you MBP a early or mid 2012. The memory listed is for that.
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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I finally caught the time and date when the beachball thing was happening. Here are a few lines of the log:
3/12/15 8:00:20.995 PM sandboxd[219]: ([5000]) nbstated(5000) deny ipc-posix-shm-read-data com.apple.AppleDatabaseChanged
3/12/15 8:00:23.254 PM bird[210]: notify name "CKStatusReport" has been registered 20 times - this may be a leak
3/12/15 8:00:23.256 PM bird[210]: notify name "CKStatusReport" has been registered 40 times - this may be a leak
3/12/15 8:00:23.257 PM bird[210]: notify name "CKStatusReport" has been registered 60 times - this may be a leak
3/12/15 8:00:24.013 PM nsurlsessiond[204]: Being asked if container with identifier com.apple.clouddocs.F6266T9T75.com.apple.iMovie is foreground before getting callback from BRContainersMonitor!
3/12/15 8:00:24.013 PM nsurlsessiond[204]: Being asked if container with identifier com.apple.clouddocs.F6266T9T75.com.apple.iMovie is foreground before getting callback from BRContainersMonitor!
3/12/15 8:00:25.286 PM discoveryd[51]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[3856] errno[3] result[-1]
3/12/15 8:00:25.414 PM xpcproxy[5010]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.
Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.
3/12/15 8:00:25.425 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.photostream-agent[5010]) Could not find and/or execute program specified by service: 45: Operation not supported: com.apple.photostream-agent
3/12/15 8:00:25.426 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.photostream-agent) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
3/12/15 8:00:25.739 PM nsurlsessiond[204]: Being asked if container with identifier com.apple.clouddocs.com.apple.ScriptEditor2 is foreground before getting callback from BRContainersMonitor!
This last one repeated a bunch of times . . . any ideas?
Thanks!
I have the same problem. I'm working away right now but next time I'm home, I'm going to ditch it and get a proper laptop that can handle some actual work.
Macbook Pro Slow
