My Mac is only a year old, I don't game or download movies, but it's running slow
I have a MacBook Pro that is only a year old. It seems to have issues closing out safari randomly and running slowly.. Sometimes it's takes quite a bit of time for webpages to open. I don't game.. I also don't download movies or big files.. What could be the problem and how do I fix it? I moved over from a PC so I really have limited info on how to maintain a MAC
I have a 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B27
SMC Version (system): 1.68f99
Serial Number (system): C0*********V13
Hardware UUID: 4A04A162-4299-58AC-B0AB-EEB19D494AC4
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
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My mac is about 4 years old. I believe it started with lepoard but im not sure.
Learn about what causes slow down issues here
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Backup your users files to a external drive (not only TimeMachine as it will restore the problem)
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Fix your machine
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Then do a defrag
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Then also check out other issues
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[email protected]The following article(s) may help you.
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Did it start not working after updating the iPOs on the iPod? SOmetimes updating an iOS breaks compatibility.
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Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Restore from backup
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dwebster
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We can't answer that. Maybe the battery is bad and is swelling inside the phone. Maybe someone else dropped it and didn't tell you about it.
Make an appointment at the genius bar and see what they say.
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short term abuse kills a battery, NOT battery cycles.
General consideration of your MacBook battery
Contrary to popular myths about notebook batteries, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot ‘overcharge’ your notebook when plugged in and already fully charged.
However if you do not plan on using your notebook for several hours, turn it off (plugged in or otherwise), since you do not want your Macbook ‘both always plugged in and in sleep mode’.
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A person who has, for example, 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 40% remaining of a 100% charge has a better battery condition state than, say, another person who has 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 10-15% remaining on a 100% charge. DoD (depth of discharge) is much more important on the wear and tear on your Macbook’s battery than the count of charge cycles. There is no set “mile” or wear from a charge cycle in specific. Frequent high depth of discharge rates (draining the battery very low) on a Lithium battery will hasten the lowering of maximum battery capacity.
All batteries in any device are a consumable meant to be replaced eventually after much time, even under perfect use conditions.
If the massive amount of data that exists on lithium batteries were to be condensed into a simplex, helpful, and memorable bit of information it would be:
1. While realistically a bit impractical during normal everyday use, a lithium battery's longevity and its chemistry's health is most happy swinging back and forth between 20% and 85% charge roughly.
2. Do not purposefully drain your battery very low (10% and less), and do not keep them charged often or always high (100%).
3. Lithium batteries do not like the following:
A: Deep discharges, as meaning roughly 10% or less on a frequent basis.
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C: Constant inflation, as meaning always or most often on charge, and certainly not both in sleep mode and on charge always or often.
From Apple on batteries:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
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Blue colored text in these forums usually indicates a clickable link. The two I posted in https://discussions.apple.com/message/18789716#18789716 bring up Apple's articles on those subjects. For partitioning information, peruse Disk Utilities help files, especially
Changing a disk’s formatting and partitions
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JoI had a MacBook which cracked several times over the three years I had it. Each time it was repaired under warranty without quibble.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
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