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Jul 29, 2010

My last battery popped, and on Monday, Apple store gave me a new one. The lady told me that it was best not to keep the power connected all the time. So I charged it to 100% and pulled the plug. It runs down incredibly fast. This morning it's been unplugged for almost an hour, doing just a bunch of web searches, and it's already down to 37%. This isn't normal, is it? I was able to watch a 2 hour movie on a full charge for my old battery. Does the charge get better over time?

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Jun 19, 2014

My Macbook has been running slow for quite sometime, and regardless of my internet provider, it is deathly slow to load.  I have seen individuals post the Etre info, so I thought I would do the same.I understand this computer is quite old, just trying to get it back into fighting shape post college.  Whether it is a hardware upgrade (if possible).

EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)Report generated June 19, 2014 at 10:51:49 PM EDT Hardware Information:  MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo (white, Late 2009)   MacBook - model: MacBook6,1  1 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores  4 GB RAM Video Information:  NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB  Color LCD 1280 x 800 System Software:  OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 24 days 0:1:23 Disk Information:  Hitachi HTS545050B9SA02 disk0 : (500.11 GB)  EFI (disk0s1)

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Sep 7, 2010

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CPU B: 92
Expansion Slots: 95
Ambient: 76

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