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Will upgrading to my old MacBook Pro from Mavericks to El Capitan speed things up? If not, how do I rollback?

My trusty old MBP (15-inch, Mid 2009; Processor 2,8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3; Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB/9600M GT 512 MB; Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F1134); positively ancient, I know!) is really giving me a hard time. And I'm not even talking video editing or other heavy duty work; no, simple word processing, browsing, etc.; the kinds of things that NEVER used put any strain on the old girl. But nowadays, JEEZ!

So, can anyone advise? Would upgrading to El Capitan make things better or worse?

I've done multiple Disk Repairs and Verifies - from Recovery Mode - even a defragmentation with iDefrag (for what it's worth, right?), but still no luck. So, I'm of a mind that an OS refresh would breathe some new life into my dear old steed before I finally retire her when I can afford to next year.

I'm just dreading that I'll make things worse! So, can I backup with Time Machine and then just rollback to Mavericks if the proverbial poo hits the fan?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Dec 7, 2015 2:03 AM

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seventy one

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Posted on Dec 7, 2015 4:25 AM

I think you need to check out your system first. Download and install this app which will tell us something of what is going on to make your system so slow. http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

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seventy one

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Dec 9, 2015 2:16 AM in response to EyeGod

Doesn't look like a problem.

Use Easy Find for the Google entries Google earth and Google talk.

For plist ...

Go to finder > click on GO.

Go to Folder > Type in ~/Library/Preferences >press return.

Search folder for the two plist entries and drag to the trash.

Apple logo > Restart your computer.

EyeGod Author

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Dec 11, 2015 3:41 AM in response to seventy one

Thanks again!

So, and update: lately (after all the advice given in this post), my MacBook has just begun randomly resetting itself. I'm thinking it may be my Logitech external keyboard and mouse (connected via Bluetooth USB), or my external Samsung monitor... It also tends to happen as soon as I logon again after the machine has been asleep for a short or extended period of time.

It resets to that grey error message screen with different languages, and then starts up again... That's a kernel panic, right? Really beginning to stress me out.

Will upgrading to my old MacBook Pro from Mavericks to El Capitan speed things up? If not, how do I rollback?