Hi.
My Macbook Pro (Retina, 13', Late 2013) started running really slow, especially at the startup. This has been going on for a week now, I tried cleaning it and all. Lately, it started shutting down at around 30% battery power with no notice whatsoever. It's only a year old so I'm freaking out a little...
Can anybody help me?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Select Macintosh HD as the Startup Disk.
“Set the default startup disk” http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310
Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18761
Reset SMC. Choose the method for “On Mac notebooks with non-removable battery”.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Start up in Safe Mode. http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1564
Best.
It's only a year old
If that really means "a little less than a year old," and you don't have AppleCare, get it to an Apple Store for testing as soon as possible before the warranty expires.
First of all, thank you for your kind answer. I tried doing everything you suggested but nothing helped.
I downloaded an application from the App store called Battery Health and got some pretty interesting information:
What I saw, frightened me - how could, in a year, maximum capacity of the battery drop from 6330 to 2506 mAh? And more, this has been happening for only about two weeks, before that I did not notice any problems with the battery.
Does anybody know what could be causing these problems? And what could be the solution? My last option is taking it to Apple (I don't have AppleCare) when I have enough money for reparations and this could take a while, so I would really really prefer ideas of what I can do at home, if possible.
Thank you very much!
It is better to take the Mac to the Apple store to have it checked out.
Reinstalling OS X may or may not help.
Backup the computer.
Reinstall OS X.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18872?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Yes as quickly as possible to Apple before the warranty runs out.
You can see the battery status in Applications->Utilities->SystemInformation: select Power on the left side
find the CycleCount: and the Condition:
(the Battery apps do the same).
batteries are laid out to last at least 1000 cycle counts in the MBP, to loose 20% of the capacity.
Macbook pro runs slowly, battery dying
