Batterly Bloat...now MBP Runs Sloooooowwwwwww
My first post on an Apple forum.
Have a 15" MBP that I bought about a year and a half or so ago. Yesterday I was typing on it and it was wobbly. I looked to see if it was sitting on something. Turned it over and to my dismay the battery looked like it blew up. I instantly removed the battery.
I did some Google searches on this and found that other users have experienced this. Many on these very forums have experienced this.
I see that Apple has closed its battery replacement program for bloated batteries a month ago. ***?! Why close it at all? If this is an on-going issue with some users of these batteries it needs to remain open for such occurances.
ANYWAY...
I haven't called AppleCare yet and I'm not optimistic that Apple will even replace the battery since I'm six months past the warranty period and I didn't get the three year service plan.
As if this wasn't bad enough, th most alarming issue is that now my computer is running slow. When I mean slow I mean that when I encode a video with h.264 it takes three or four times longer to render. Even worse is that all of my 720p h.264 movies are choppy and virtually unplayable. Forget about watching a 1080p!
Is this a CPU related problem? I know the new MBP's use hardware to decode h.264, but the older ones don't.
This all happened after I installed the new firmware Apple released that was supposed to "fix" fan-related issues.
Any advise?
What torques me off is that this is my first Mac and the darn thing cost me $1,999 plus tax. This isn't some chumpy DELL netbook.
David
davidbales wrote:
Very interesting that a laptop will run slower on AC power than a battery. Not an engineer, but it seems the opposite would make sense.
The CPU will sometimes (for brief periods) require more power than the AC adapter can provide, and the additional power is drawn from the battery; the OS throttles back the CPU to avoid this situation when running on AC power +with the battery removed+.
See: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2332
Oh, isn't there a three-finger salute you can press when booting that will sort of "reboot" the MBP and make it run better?
Holding down the Shift key at startup is Safe Mode, which runs some disk checks and disables some extensions. But that's for troubleshooting, not optimization. There's really no need to 'optimize' the Mac OS - it does that on it's own with periodic Unix maintenance scripts, it automatically defrags files smaller than 20 MB on the fly, etc. To borrow your phrasing, this isn't some chumpy Windows OS.
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Video Information:
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Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
AirPlay: Version: 1.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
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EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 255.2 GB (169.85 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
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USB Information:
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
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EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated May 28, 2014 at 8:59:28 AM PDT
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4 GB RAM
Video Information:
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System Software:
OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 0:5:35
Disk Information:
Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (320.07 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 319.21 GB (65.3 GB free)
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Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
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Thunderbolt Information:
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[kext loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.12) Support
[kext loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.12) Support
[kext loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.12) Support
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111 MB Google Chrome
111 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
78 MB Dropbox
66 MB Finder
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740 MB Inactive RAM
942 MB Wired RAM
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Pacman9889,
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I recently (Jan 2012) acquired a MacBook Pro (MBP) running 10.7.4 and an AirPort Express. I also have an old PPC G4 tower (Digital Audio model) running 10.4.11. The OS software on both machines is totally up to date. AirPort Utility on the G4 is 5.4.2 and on 6.0 on the MBP. I bought a used AirPort card for the G4, I believe it is 802.11b compatible, and the wireless data rate is specified at 11 Mbps. Being a newbie to wireless, it took me many days to get these two machines to link up. This network is not connected to the internet, and there no other networks in the vicinity.
My last problem to solve is the very slow file transfer speeds between the two machines. The transfer time seems to vary depending on which machine I use to initiate the transfer, and which direction the transfer is going. For example: If I initiate the transfer from the G4 and send a 5.4MB file to the MBP it takes 1:32 (min:sec), while the same file going from the MBP to the G4 takes 27 seconds. On the other hand if the transfer is initiated on the MBP, going from the MBP to the G4 takes 2:56, while going from the G4 to the MBP takes 1:59. I realize that these times are not actual wireless transfer times but includes the entire transfer process.
Both machines and the AirPort Express are within a 4-foot radius. Both machines are set to radio channel 2. The AirPort Express is set for 802.11n(802.11b/g compatible) with WPA/WPA2 Personal wireless security.
Any help would be appreciated.
CEU2BDAqua,
Thanks for the response.
Apple has used the term "Digital Audio" to identify this machine. System Profiler has the following information:
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 800 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 768 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.3.3f2
Serial Number: XBxxxxxMK9
Sales Order Number:
Yes, I could connect them by ethernet if all I wanted to do was transfer files, but I would like to network them so I could use wireless internet. The machines are not always so close together, I did that to simplify the testing. With the very slow transfer speeds I am reluctant to move ahead with the internet step.
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USB hard drive is not recognized on MBP running Lion
Hello,
I have:
- Freecom ToughDrive Pro USB hard drive
- New MBP running Lion 10.7.3
When I plug the disk in an USB port in the MBP, the light that indicates operation starts blinking but very lighltly colored and the disk is not recognized by the computer. I have put data on it using iMac Snow Leopard. I have plugged the disk into a MBP running Snow Leopard and it works. I have also tried another Lion (older MBP) and it also works.
What is wrong? How come the disk is not mounted or shown in Disk Utility. Can it be a power issue? Any ideas?
I have noticed there a lot of similar posts in the forum and none has been satisfactorily solved. Is this a mayor Lion bug? If yes, how can I downgrade to Snow Leopard?dafnedr wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
However... how is it possible that with all other MBPs I have tried it works just fine? Has Apple lowered the power levels in recent models? The other MBP where I have tried the disk on are just over a year old, my current one is only a month old.
Are you saying that USB ports on different Apple computers are supplying different levels of power? That's psychotic! It should be a standard power level... or it should go up on newer models... not down!!!
I think I'm just gonna return this piece of scrape and get my old (one year old) MBP back... Snow Leopard was bliss compared to this... I rather go back than have to jump to a store to buy a cable to make something work that should work by default.
On the one Mac it does not work on that Mac does not put out enough power to fully power the drive. If it works on other Mac's we know that the drive works, so that question is answered. And it doesn't work on your newest Mac then there can only one answer, Not Enough Power is being put out by the USB port to fully power it.
Yes the one Mac that it is not working on has a lower USB power output. Why, I have no idea.
This is Very Common you can find posts about it on all notebook forums. Psychotic, No. Yes Mac is touted as "It Just Works" which is a flat out LIE.
Do what you think is best for you. Good Luck
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