Have a mac pro, 2009 with 2 GB ram. Installed yosemite and it runs very slow. Don't believe I can increase ram. Any suggestions to increase speed short of uninstalling yosemite?
mouse-OTHER
You can increase memory up to 32 GBs. Buy more RAM.
rschmidt1944 wrote:
Have a mac pro, 2009 with 2 GB ram. Installed yosemite and it runs very slow. Don't believe I can increase ram. Any suggestions to increase speed short of uninstalling yosemite?
Yosemite requires at least 4GB minimum.
If your pro still came with a little everything mac booklet it has instructions on how to install/upgrade.
Hi, here is apples spec for 2009 Mac Pro machines:
Memory
It would appear that the 2 variants have differing Max RAM limits however this proves that you should be able to upgrade your RAM without any problems upto at least 16GB in the Quad core variant, even higher with the 8 Core at 32GB.
Hope this helps.
You are not correct about Yosemite memory requirements. The minimum is 2 GBs. 4 GBs may be better to have, but it is not the minimum.
The 16GB specs for the Quad core was issued before denser (than 4GB) modules became available.The upper limits are much higher now, but Apple has a history of not updating their specs based on the marketplace, only on what they are selling.
Be sure to deal with a Mac-centric Vendor who can tell you, with authority, what will work in your particular model Mac, or your money back.
A 2009 was sold with a MINIMUM of 3GB. Something is likely wrong, and while it may be able to "boot" with 2 or 3GB, that is about it.
Find some nice DDR3 ECC memory in a 4x4GB kit, and while at it, an SSD device.
You will not get anywhere near acceptable perfolrmance and will have lots of paging and sluggish.
Also installing 10.10 over a prior system often results in problems.
The hatter wrote:
A 2009 was sold with a MINIMUM of 3GB. Something is likely wrong...
My guess is that, as with many other Mac Pro Community posters, the OP has a mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro, one version of which shipped with 2GB of RAM. Since it can take up to 8GB of RAM, an upgrade would, indeed, be the way to go.
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You do have a laptop. And even the 2011 model with 4GB many users complain Yosemite running slow.
More RAM along with replacing the disk drive for an SSD are in order.
Also, do a clean install (easy to look up how to do) instead of installing new OS's over the older one.
You could also download and run EtreCheck and post output to help focus on what is happening and wrong.
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Could help with your other issues too.
Have a mac pro, 2009 with 2 GB ram. Installed yosemite and it runs very slow. Don't believe I can increase ram. Any suggestions to increase speed short of uninstalling yosemite?
