Q: My MacBook Pro is super slow
Hey there
I've got a 13 inch 2013 MacBook Pro, which was running on Mavericks until today. About two weeks ago it started to slow down a huge amount, with the pinwheel of death appearing after every couple of clicks. Since it started, I've:
- checked activity monitor, CPU has been really low every time I checked (about 5% for system, 7% for user)
- run disk utility, finding some disk permissions and repairing them, finding nothing on the disk to repair
- run Clean My Mac, it found about 5GB of stuff that could have been deleted (but I didn't delete everything it found)
- time machined back to before the problem started, no change there
- run a ClamXav virus scan, it found one dodgy file, I've deleted it
- updated to Sierra, no change there
No significant change since doing all of this, the machine is still slow as ****, and doing all of this has taken soooo loooong (the virus scan took three days. THREE DAYS!!)
Naturally I'm not in warranty anymore, I was when something similar happened last year and a part was replaced (can't tell from the documentation quite what was done...) Anything you guys can think of that I should try before I go and pay for a repair?
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 3:04 AM




