Hangouts on El capitan MacBook Pro (Early 2011)

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Hangouts on El capitan MacBook Pro (Early 2011)

Attention! People updating El Capitan from Yosemite on a MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2011), this is what happen to me:

After installing El Capitan, my MB start to went very slowly, taking ages to boot, and even the most simple task like browsing and copying files on my hard drive give me the most terrible hang outs, hang outs that last even for 20 minutes!

At first, my believe was that after many updates (Been updating all the way from Mac OS Lion), the system became "dirty" and that if I perform a clean install of El Capitan everything will go back to normal, I was so wrong! after erasing my HD and make a clean install of El Capitan, things did not improve, on contrary, things even went slower, now even my USB Bus speed seem to be affected, I ran a several test like booting on safe mode, reset NVRAM and SMC, use disc utility to repair the hard drive, even use 3th. party software for maintenance, run the Hardware test of the recovery partition, everything you can think of and nothing work, I contact via phone to Apple support, and they said that there may be a problem whit my hardware and to make an appointment for a proper diagnosis and repairs.

But because I'm not the kind of people that takes anything for granted, I follow this procedure to downgrade from El Capitan to Yosemite (On my own risk) http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/delete-el-capitan-go-back-to-yosem ite-3581872/ and guess what? Apparently all is back to normal, even faster because things are running very smood on a clean install of Yosemite. Now all I have to do is restore my backup from TimeMachine and see what happens.

So this is what I think, my MacBook Pro is not compatible whit El Capitan even when Apple assures it does. So, I recommend other users with same issues, to report this to Apple for an update on El Capitan if this is a common problem.

For reference this is my MacBook Pro:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)

2.7 GHz Intel Core i7

4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

Thanks for reading.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11), Intel Core i7 4 GB RAM Early 2011

Posted on Oct 10, 2015 9:13 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 11, 2015 11:15 PM in response to Victor Beltran

Regarding problems with El Capitan that I previously experienced -

I have been in contact with one of the Apple engineers, and he has been very responsive with follow up calls over the past week. What we ended up trying is that we set up a separate hard drive partition and updated from Lion to Yosemite, then to El Capitan. Under this separate partition, it's running fine. I've not experienced any problems with using it, and what I have found for sure is that I havean early 2011 MacBook Pro, even though I purchased mine during the latter 1/2 of that year.

I currently believe that the culprit is my Parallels application that I have to use for a previous business accounting and estimating software programs that weren't supported through Mac OS. I am utilizing Windows 7 for these apps. Parallels has sent out notices to update to their latest version so that it's compatible, but I haven't committed as of this date. Contemplating gong to Boot Camp and setting up Windows 7 through that, since I've found business software that is OS friendly.

So my suggestion is that you possibly look into what current apps you have (3rd party). This may be why everything's messed up when you try the latest upgrade.

I haven't used it much, but the few times I've played with the El Capitan partitioned HD, it works great. No problems loading, using Safari or any of the built in apps that are in it.

The engineer suggested downloading Parallels on this new partition to see how it affects it, but I think at this point that it's a no-brainer since that was the only outside party app I have been previously using.

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Answer 2

Oct 11, 2015 11:15 PM in response to randyelectrician

Also, when this all originally started, I had an original spindle HD. Think there was a problem with it that didn't become apparent until the upgrade. After replacing with a new solid state HD, tried the upgrade again, and my MacBook was rendered useless. That is when I set up the separate partition and ran El Capitan on it.

As of today, both run fine. Going on 5 days now.

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Answer 3

Oct 11, 2015 11:15 PM in response to randyelectrician

Ok, I'll look into that, I was using VMWare Fusion to run Corel Draw for Windows when I updated from Yosemite to El Capitan. Im gonna give El Capitan one last shot tomorrow and install it on this clean install that runs fine to see what happen. Also I have the Dropbox app installed. May be one of both interfere the installation of El Capitan. I'll tell you tomorrow how it went. Thanks and best regards.

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Answer 4

nbanner

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Apr 25, 2016 3:46 PM in response to Victor Beltran

I also have VMWare Fusion and Dropbox and I'm waaaay behind on upgrades because when I opted for Mavericks a couple years ago, it created a mess - I had to uninstall it and I've been running Mountain Lion ever since (though not without frequent issues).

Do you have an update to your post??

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