MacBook Air :: Dock On Left Or Right - Find It Unusable

Oct 23, 2010

But it seems this or hiding it will be the only way to go with the new small air. The thing that I find very badly thought out in apple's implementation is that the furthest left icon on the dock (the finder one) becomes the top on when you put it on the left or right and there's no option to reverse the this. Now when you are switching between windows it takes much more time to travel with your mouth near the top and left or right than it would near the bottom for obvious usability reasons. So you end up having the closest to you those icons (minimized ones, stacks) that you will use less often to switch from one to the other, and the ones you will use more often such as the first few ones the furthest up. I can't see how people can work with this kind of set up and I am always amazed how some people manage to keep their dock on the left or right...

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May 24, 2009

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Nov 16, 2010

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Tested with ping and found the reason:

PING rottentomatoes.com (209.237.233.38): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=267.700 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=256.533 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=258.127 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
Request timeout for icmp_seq 9
Request timeout for icmp_seq 10
Request timeout for icmp_seq 11
Request timeout for icmp_seq 12

Yikes... what's going on... almost every packet being dropped causing essentially unusable websites.

Test 1: Unplug wireless access point and plug Ethernet cable directly into MBP

PING rottentomatoes.com (209.237.233.38): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=257.605 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=255.540 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=256.139 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=255.279 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=255.586 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=255.591 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=256.747 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=255.630 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=8 ttl=54 time=256.657 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=9 ttl=54 time=255.682 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=10 ttl=54 time=255.122 ms
64 bytes from 209.237.233.38: icmp_seq=11 ttl=54 time=255.626 ms

Conclusion 1: It's not the modem or ISP, but the WAP

Test 2: Try wireless with my trusty Linux netbook...

No problems with dropped packets.

Conclusion 2: It is the MBP + wireless that is the problem

Now what can I do about it?

I have googled around and found some older threads about problems with wireless with OS 10.6.3 and various ad hoc solutions, but nothing really current.

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Aug 13, 2009

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Dec 9, 2014

My Macbook has begun to run incredibly slow, it's taken me almost an hour to post this. Keep seeing the spinning wheel.

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At this point the I was unable to shut down without holding the power key, for about a week I've been turning the macbook on and off into disc utility to try and fix it. When booting normally the progress bar usually gets about halfway and then goes nowhere. At one point I could hear dings (messages from my phone coming through) on the laptop but the startup progress bar was stuck at halfway; almost as if it had successfully booted but wasn't showing me. 

I've repaired disc/disc permissions and reinstalled OSX. I tried to reinstall OSX a second time and an error came up, disc utility also kept showing my hard drive as unmounted and would take forever to let me click anywhere. 

After many failed attempts this eventually allowed me to startup, allbeit slowly (after a particularly fast disc repair) 

My last backup was a while ago and now I've managed to boot up, trying to back up now but this isn't working either. 

I've downloaded etrecheck ...

Problem description:
Mac Running Slow
Unable to backup 
EtreCheck version: 2.1.1 (104)
Report generated 9 December 2014 08:00:22 GMT 

[Code] ......

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Mar 17, 2010

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