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Macbook Air 2014 unbearable slow

Ever since I updated to Yosemite back in October, my macbook air has been so god **** slow. I can't get **** done on it, and my fans are overheating all the time. When I start IntelliJ, the CPU overclocks itself to 300%, same goes for photoshop. I can't even get anything done on my laptop anymore, and using an exernal screen is almost not worth it because of all the lag on the graphics and overall performance. It feels like I'm using this laptop back in 2008 with 2003 hardware and ADSL internet.

Problem description:

Macbook Air is generally slow, the animations are laggy, safari is unbearable slow and I can’t have Photoshop and safari on at the same time for example without suffering so much lag, and the fan starting to go on.


EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)

Report generated 29 Mar 2015 10:44:35 CEST

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Hardware Information: ℹ️

MacBook Air (Technical Specifications)

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2

1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 208


Video Information: ℹ️

Intel HD Graphics 5000

Color LCD 1440 x 900

S27D390 spdisplays_1080p


System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514) - Time since boot: 10:35:53


Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121,33 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 120.11 GB (48.54 GB free)

Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked

Core Storage: disk0s2 120.47 GB Online


USB Information: ℹ️

Apple Internal Memory Card Reader 63,86 GB

EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

backUpSD (disk2s2) <not mounted> : 63.52 GB

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Razer Razer BlackWidow Ultimate

SteelSeries Rival Gaming Mouse


Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Anywhere


Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox

[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.3.22) [Click for support]

[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.22) [Click for support]

[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.22) [Click for support]

[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.22) [Click for support]


/Library/Extensions

[loaded] com.razer.common.razerhid (10.85 - SDK 10.9) [Click for support]


Startup Items: ℹ️

MySQLCOM: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM

Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite


Launch Agents: ℹ️

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.razer.rzupdater.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.razerzone.rzdeviceengine.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist [Click for support]


Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2.Agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.teamviewer.Helper.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.startup.plist [Click for support]


User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.diskSpaceWatcher.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.scheduledScan.plist [Click for support]

[loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac2Helper.trashWatcher.plist [Click for support]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Click for support]

[running] homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist [Click for support]

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist [Click for support]


User Login Items: ℹ️

Flux Application (/Applications/Flux.app)

Flexiglass Application Hidden (/Applications/Flexiglass.app)

Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

Google Drive Application (/Applications/Google Drive.app)

Google Chrome Application Hidden (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)

Spotify Application Hidden (/Applications/Spotify.app)


Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 17.0.0.134 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

Flash Player: Version: 17.0.0.134 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 Update 31 Check version

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10


Safari Extensions: ℹ️

Adblock Plus


3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

Flash Player [Click for support]

Java [Click for support]

MySQL [Click for support]


Time Machine: ℹ️

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

8% WindowServer

5% Safari

1% loginwindow

1% Finder

1% Flexiglass


Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

198 MB Safari

107 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

43 MB Google Chrome

34 MB mds

34 MB Spotify


Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

66 MB Free RAM

2.43 GB Active RAM

2.33 GB Inactive RAM

1.09 GB Wired RAM

5.88 GB Page-ins

65 MB Page-outs


Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

Mar 28, 2015, 11:08:14 PM Self test - passed

Posted on Mar 29, 2015 1:48 AM

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Macbook Air 2014 unbearable slow

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