Q: MacBook Pro Slow!!

It will make it easier to help you w/ your problem to know the exact model, size, year built, RAM installed and OS you're running.

Download and run EtreCheck:

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

http://www.macworld.com/article/2457680/etrecheck-review-get-a-full-status-repor t-on-your-troubled-mac.html

Post the report back here. There are many experts here who can interpret that report.

Memory Clean gets a bad rap around here:

MBP App Memory Clean showing a total of only 3.38GB RAM, although my MAC should have a total of 4?

After you run through that report.

Certain models have a recall:

Apple Recall:

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

If yours is a 13" and after going through your EtreCheck consider this:

Your computer will rip w/ a SSD.

I only deal with OWC and there are many reasons that I do

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_6G/

Never had a problem w/ anything I've ever bought from them in at least 8 years or so. They are Mac specialists so everything they sell works without any hassle.

I on an early 2011 MBP 13" right now.

I put a 120 GB SSD from OWC in it and bumped the RAM to 8 GB. I'm running Mavericks 10.9.5. I've been avoiding Yosemite w/ all the issues we see around here.

Photoshop CS 6 opens in 3.4 seconds. I typically have 5 desktops open, 3 browsers, Photoshop and Word and probably an average of 12 windows open at one time. Never see the spinning ball. I went w/ the smaller SSD for budget reasons. If I needed a lot of storage I'd run a conventional hard drive as a disk doubler (Check OWC site for that.) or an external.

Personally I'm avoiding Yosemite until things get sorted out. Read the posts around here that start out "My ... runs slow.."

Hollin89 wrote:

 

 

 

I literally only use this Mac for Safari. I downloaded Memory Clean and it constantly says I'm using 3GB - 3.9GB a time!

 

Can anyone help me out in terms of speeding it up? I have about 200GB on the HDD, so it's not even anywhere near full.

 

Is it because I have the latest OS X? Or anything like that because that really should be to case.

 

Please help.

That is perfectly normal when Yosemite is installed.  That alone is not your problem.  Please read this:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464

Download the Etrecheck report as requested by Spunuty.

Ciao.

When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.  

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console 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 and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

          View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

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