MacBook Pro :: (2012) Slow To The Point Of Being Unusable
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.
Its been like this for about a week and normally doesn't boot, even in safe mode. Appeared to be a gradual thing, was irritating at first but worsened as I took steps to troubleshoot. Initially cleared browsing history and closed programs, to no avail. I then booted in safe mode and the computer remained slow.
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.Â
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.Â
After many failed attempts this eventually allowed me to startup, allbeit slowly (after a particularly fast disc repair)Â
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.Â
I've downloaded etrecheck ...
Problem description:
Mac Running Slow
Unable to backupÂ
EtreCheck version: 2.1.1 (104)
Report generated 9 December 2014 08:00:22 GMTÂ
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Info:
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Ive had my macbook for about 2 months and its seemed to working just fine. However today while listening to music it decided to lock up and freeze for a good minute before it would unlock and continue playing the music through itunes. It did this a few times so I finally decided to restart the computer. The first time I booted it it froze on the apple logo and the loading circle. I killed it and rebooted, it takes about four to five minutes to get to the desktop picture, and another five to pull up the main menu bar. I am going to let it sit over night and see if it gives me any error messages, however; I still haven't seen the dock at all, and ive let it start for about twenty minutes now. It will usually show the top menu bar and then the mouse will give me the sbod while it slowly loads up the top menu bar, and usually the clock is a good few minutes behind.
I have tried a pram zap, draining the power off the board, checking the sata connection, unplugging the power, and I ran a hardware check at start up and it said everything was ok. I am currently typing on my tank of a toshiba laptop that still works after being dropped multiple times and has been heavily used for a good 3 years. The mac has been completely useless is most work situations. Its a refurbished 2.53ghz 4gb ram 9600m 512mb 15" mbp. I am thinking of reformatting it and hoping it works, and then selling it and using the money for a new toshiba or a custom built desktop, because I just cant deal with the amount of money and time I have lost trying to deal with this thing while I could have been getting work done.
I recently updated my FCPX to 10.1.3 after a couple of weeks away on work, and now upon resuming work on projects I had been working on without any problems before, FCPX becomes unusable - it is slow, refuses to render, ends up hanging up my whole iMac until I eventually manage to force quit FCPX.Â
I have tried deleting preferences on start up of FCPX but this has not worked.Â
I am working on a couple of large corporate pieces on a tight deadline and now I can't so much as change a single title, whereas before I was flying through it.Â
I'm experiencing very slow speeds on my new Macbook Air 13" mid 2012. For example when I'm transferring files from my NAS, a Qnap TS-259 Pro+, wirelessly through my D-Link DIR 855 router. I barely reach speeds around 1MB/s. If I use my Windows 7 laptop, that sits right next to my Mac, to transfer the exact same file I get constant speeds around 6MB/s. That's six times faster.Â
Is there a known issue with the wifi that I've missed?Â
I did some further testing to try and identify the cause of the wifi problem. I installed Windows 7 in Parallels and transferred the exact the same files once again. Here's where it becomes interesting. Transferring those same files on my Macbook, using Windows 7 under Parallels, the speed was the same as it was on my physical Windows 7 machine, i.e. a constant speed of around 6MB/s. I then switched back to Mac OSX again and the speed once again decreased to around 1MB/s.
i just got my 2012 Retina MBP and i absolutely love it. there's one problem though. wifi is EXTREMELY slow.
we have a campus-wide 802.11n network, all my other devices work flawlessly.
can i somehow force my MBP NOT to use the 5 GHz band but to stay at 2.4 GHz? I believe i somewhere read that this could fix the problem. ethernet via thunderbolt works as supposed.
Info: MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm encountering an issue with a new Macbook Air and would grateful for any insights. I have an Airport Extreme (latest model, 5th gen, A1408) based network (all updates applied). I have a new 2012 MacBook Air (11") that I noticed was suffering from VERY slow wifi speeds. After looking into it, I realized that if I used the configuration utility to separately name the 5GHz network and connect to wifi on the 2.4 Ghz network, the speed radically improved.Â
To illustrate, using speedtest.net, I saw download speeds of 35-38 Mb/s using the 2.4 Ghz network. This drops to 2-3 Mb/s when using the 5 Ghz network. The Macbook Air is showing an RSSI value of -56 when connected via 5 GHz and -51 when connected via 2.4 Ghz.Â
Other deivces in the home have normal connection speeds on the 5 GHz network, as does a previous generation, 2011 MacBook Air.A friend's also new, 2012Â 11" MacBook Air exhibits the same symptoms, so the issue is not specific to my unit.Â
Internet seemed very very sluggish when working at home via a wireless access point...
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.
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...
I have a mac book pro 13" intel core 2 duo running OS 10.6.8, i did an update and is not so unstsble, i cant even open software update to find out a list of updates, most applications try to open but then close and if you do get a program to open it takes ages to do any thing. About the only program that work's is itunes and even thats slow. If i resart the it you have to leave for about half an hour for it to settle down before you can do anything. It was working fine before the update, but truth be told, the spinning beachball was a seen at every clik.Â
Wifi unusable after upgrade to Lion..My computer is a MacBook Pro early 2008.After upgrading Snow Leopard to Lion, my wifi connection have become weird.In wifi networks that were added in snow leopard, there are no problems. But in a wifi network added after the upgrade to Lion,the wifi connection is so slow that even safari can't open a webpage. I have already trie do reset PRAM and NVRAM and deleting and turning off/Reset cycle (url....) and my wifi connection become normal (i could open a webpage as usual) for 5 minutes. Afterwards, it become so slow again that i can't even open a webpage.Moreover, i am able to ping google.com in terminal.My wifi chipset is a broadcom. I have the latest updates installed. I am able to connect the internet and surf as usual in my ipad and iPhone.
Info: MacBook Pro 2.6, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 4 GB ram
I have a macbook air in my household (it is not my laptop, but i bought it for my wife) and I am having a couple of issues.
1) occasionally, hard to reproduce, it looks like some of the LEDs at the bottom of the screen are going out. they alternate in a very specific dark light pattern. This started up a couple weeks ago
2) now the keyboard has now become unusable as the number keys are permanently shifted into !@#$% instead of 12345. The keys are not sticky or anything, and there does not appear to be any liquid damage, but then again, i am not the primary user of this laptop so who really knows.
Does any of this sound like something covered under warranty? Are there any water damage indicators i can check to see if damage was caused by this?
I desperately seek help from the community as Apple itself doesn't seem to care much.After updating to 10.7.4 my Imac has become unusable. It goes into a loading state just about every 10 minutes at which i can do little more than move the mouse around. I know it is the new update causing this (and not the hardware) because i also have a Bootcamp partition which works totally fine. Does anyone have any advice or solutions? Unfortunately i am currently not in the position to reinstall my system. I have no more space on my external HD to back up everything and am not in the position to purchase a new hard drive. And in my opinion, i shouldn't have to resort to such drastic measures because Apple released such a terrible update.
About a month back, I purchased a wireless mighty mouse and tried using it with my 2009 Mac Pro. The lag and tracking were terrible, making it unusable. When connected to my MacBook Air (on the same desk) it worked flawlessly. I assumed at the time there was a problem with the bluetooth on my Mac Pro so I've been meaning to get Apple Support on the case but just haven't got around to it (using the old wired mouse as before).
Now, I'm reading some stories on the peripherals forum that owners of Mac Pro's have issues with lag and tracking with the new Magic Mouse, and some are stating that it's a known problem with the Mac Pro chassis that it doesn't enable adequate bluetooth operation due to all the metal. Is this true? What's your experience using a bluetooth mouse with the Mac Pro?
I've been using the Messages Beta for a while now and its been great. I've it installed on two machines. One machine is fine, but on the other it's nearly unusable. The messages window is all over the place. I click on a message in the left hand side and nothing happens. Double click on another and I get a totally different message. I've odd blank messages... And when I quit and reopen different messages show. Now I reinstalled it a few times now, and nothing has any effect... any ideas while I wait until mountain lion?? Ive also ditched all the prefs I can see. Â
Have a late 09 i7 27" iMac with XP SP3 installed on Bootcamp partition. Even after turning down brightness in BootCamp control panel all the way down, I still feel like I'm staring at the sun. Screen is still way too bright. No such issue in OS X. Is there any Windows app (similar to Shades) that allows further brightness reduction? With brightness as is, Bootcamp is pretty much unusable to me.
I've just installed Windows 7 on my new iMac and when running it through VMWare it's extremely slow and basically unusable. Thought it would be super-fast on the i7?!
My set up is as follows: Windows 7 64-bit on 50GB Bootcamp partition VMWare 3 using 2 processor cores & 1500MB Ram
Things improve marginally if I use the ultra basic visual theme.
I have a unibody Macbook Pro running OSX 10.6.3. Everything is up to date but the computer is now on its second hard drive and fresh install of OSX and is still unusable. After the hard drive was replaced, it worked flawlessly for an evening. However, the old symptoms reemerged the next morning. Symptoms: very slow to boot or freezes on gray screen with status circle frozen grey circle with slash through it on boot
once it boots, if it does boot, the beachball constantly spins/freezes... I have literally no software installed on the fresh install and it still does it when attempting to boot in safe mode Also, the hard drive when checked gives the following errors even after I repair them in drive genius (the same errors the old drive reported):
I haven't been using it much after Safari 5 (just because Firefox takes forever to open compared to Chome and Safari) but I think that since 3.6.4 or 3.6.5 it constantly hogs my system using 80%-90% of my CPU according to Activity Monitor. RAM usage is similar to other browsers.
Yeah I know I have an old Mac (Mini Core Duo 1.66) but right now for example Safari 5 with 5 tabs is using 5% and Chome is at 4.5%. I know it's not the extensions because I downloaded the 4.0 beta which disabled most of them (just to test it) and the same thing happened. Btw I'm using 10.6.4.
One is that since upgrading to "Lion", when using Safari, it will suddenly expand and become almost unusable. For example, when filling in a form and the screen suddenly enlarges, I can continue to fill in the form but I cannot submit it. I have to either go back a page, or come out of Safari totally, and restart.
I Have a 17' iMac 2006 It has had lines in it for a while and i have called Apple Support and they have not helped me at all and no my entire screen has went out it makes it impossible to do anything I am having to try to use my dads Macbook to do my College homework?
Info: iMac (17-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.7.4), With crapy screen lines
I'm running a fully-loaded 2011 iMac (still the latest model as of this writing) and it stays up 24x7 (it's a work machine that is constantly compiling and testing software). I listen to music, mainly using Spotify, during the day. Parallels, VPN Tracker, Skype, and Chrome is always on as well.Â
After 20-30 days, the audio, across the board, starts to get choppy (music, Skype, even system sounds). After a day or so, it eventually gets to where the choppiness is so bad that audio is completely unusable. The only thing that I've found that fixes it is a reboot. Sigh... I've tried closing every application, plugging and unplugging the speakers, and chanting, and nothing but rebooting helps. As far as I can tell, there is no way to "restart" the audio system specifically.Â
I have problems opening PP. It looks as though it tries to open a couple of files that were left open when I logged off, with no success. Do you know how to block the opening of previously left open files when I launch the program?
Suddenly I cannot open a powerpoint presentation from my finder. It gives the notification protected. I did not change anything in my settings I can recall?How can I change this back?
Some people on the internet say the remote is automatically usuable but when i tryed to use my remote with powerpoint it does not respond. I am using powerpoint 2011 mac and the aluminium remote
I have tried installing Parallels about 4 times this morning & I can't get to the point where I input the Product Activation Key. It keeps saying that the installation is sucessfull, but then nothing.
Info: MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I got my Macbook Air connected to the internet, and want to connect my iPod Touch to the internet through my Macbook Air. I saw people using their Macbook Pro to share the wi-fi through their AirPort. How about Macbook Air? As I don't see such option in the Sharing preference, I downloaded the AirPort Utility and it simply says I cannot install it.
I remove the boot camp partition by using the disk utility. Removing the partition resulted in a gray space, that couldn't be used by the Macintosh HD partition. I tried to merge them together, but after working a while the disk utility keeps giving me an error message. I'm not very good at explaining, so take a look at the pictures below. First off i start up the disk utility: Then i rezise the Macintosh HD partition: And then i try to partionate, and after about 5 min an error message pops up: I have no clue how to solve this one.
