Why is my 15'' macbook pro Early 2011 slowing down in performance often?

Why is my 15'' macbook pro Early 2011 slowing down in performance often? It's barely got anything in it and it lags alot of times. This is supposedly running on quad-core i7 2.2 yet I have to restart at times to make sure it gets better. Why is that so?
I turn on activity monitor and there aren't even anything taking up power or memory. It just lags out of the blue.

Activity Monitor may still offer a clue. By default, it shows only "My Processes," those related to your user account. To see the real picture, you need to set AM to show "All Processes" as in this view:
Click the header "%CPU" to sort by usage. Most true resource hogs are only apparent in this view.

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MacBook Pro Early 2011 shuts down unexpectedly

Every 4 - 5 days this happens: my battery indicate 100% and suddenly my macbook pro shuts down unexpectedly and restart it the battery is at 0%, all this happens even with the charger connected.
Battery is defective?

Please go to System Preferences > User account and you will Login Items unchecked all the items.
Once you done with that thn follow these steps :-
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Why is my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) so slow!!!

My Macbook Pro (Early 2011) with intel dual - core i7 4 gb RAM so slow. It came with Snow Leaopord and upgraded it to Lion, then uprgaded it to Mountain Lion. Whenever I run one of the Adobe CS5 apps it gets reeeeaaaaaaalllllllyyyy slow. It used to not get slow at all. Also when I have FCPX open it gets really slow. I used to be able to run Photoshop and Safari at the same time and now it is really slugish and slow. Is there anthing I can do to clean it up and make t run faster?
Thanks

Follow Sig's suggeston in adding more RAM.
Photoshop and FCP are RAM dependent applications. With 4GB of RAM, open activity monitor and see your page outs and swap used.
I have 16GB installed - page outs - 0. swap used - 0. see image below.
8GB should be a perfect upgrade for what you're using it for.
Good luck.

Macbook pro (early 2011) won't boot after sleep. Black screen with chime

I put my macbook pro early 2011 (Quad, 8 Gb RAM, 2 x SSD-disks, external 27" LED-screen) into sleep mode a couple of days ago. Everything was fine then.
However, the morning after it wouldn't wake up - this is the bootup process:
- Black screen
- Chime
- Still black screen, nothing happens.
So I've tried resetting NVRAM, SMC etc - no luck. Even tried the "Powerbutton" + "S" + Enter but to no avail.So I immediately began dd:ing my SSD-disk before trying anything else, figured it might be some preboot-corruption of some sort since I'm running FileVault2 with full AES-encryption.
Now, the problem (after some troubleshooting) doesn't seem to be disk-oriented. Remember the black screen? I've tried pulling the SATA-cables one by one on the motherboard of the Macbook pro and discovered that when I pulled the cable which reaches over the optical device (just above the SATA-cable for the optical device) then I get a white screen and I'm able to get as far as boot-option, or even disk repair (if I run my SSD-disk over USB and without any cables (three of them) attacked to the motherboard).
So since nothing works when I have disks connected or that third cable (some kind of logic board bridge? Reaches through the screen over to the other side of the mother board).
Also worth noting is that I was running out of free disk-space on my system disk. The disk is 250 Gb and free space was about 5-10 Gb (less than 5%). I also make the macbook pro dump contents of memory to disk (since my disk is encrypted it resides safely there).
So, my fear is that Apple hasn't used A-grade controllers for the disk drives (I've had drive corruption before, a Crucial 6 GB/s drive trashed less than a week before a presentation) and doesn't handle "unexpected events" nor signal/noise ratio very well. Maybe free space on disk was less than the 8 Gb needed to dump RAM (shouldn't have needed the full 8 Gb though) and this caused some kind of panic overwrite which trashed the controller?
Anyways, I've attached an image of the motherboard and I am wondering - what does the top cable which reaches over the optical drive do? Is it connected to the logic-board?

sspott wrote:
** The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.
Looks to me like a fatal error on the hard disk. IMHO, the only solution is to boot from an external device, reformat the hard drive, and restore from backup. If you don't have a backup, you're in trouble. Boot from the external device, try to mount the int'l drive, and, if successful, back up as much as possible. Also, try running Disk Utility—it may be possible to fix it while booted from a different device, thought I wouldn't bank on it. At any rate, make sure to run an AHT afterwards, to check for possible hardware issues with the drive.
If the machine is still covered by AppleCare, take it to the store by all means. But they won't try to recover anything from the int'l drive, just check it, erase it if they don't find hardware issues, and re-install a fresh copy of the OS.
That's why you should always have at least 1 up-to-date backup (2, with one kept off-site, is better).

What do you use to speed up final cut pro x on my macbook pro early 2011?

what do you use to speed up final cut pro x on my macbook pro early 2011?

I don't use anything to speed up FCP X on your MBP.
Seriously we need statistical info on why you think it needs speeding up.
Poor performance is often associated with incorrect usage, lots of other apps open or a hard drive that is more than 75% full or fragmented.
Ideally all the media should be stored on an external hard drive and not the MBP's.

My Macbook Pro (Early 2011) is freezing nearly everyday?

Hi
My Macbook Pro (Early 2011, purchased at launch) is freezing nearly everyday. This problem exists for a long time (Since purchase). Whenever I let my macbook turned on, it freezes after some time. (Quite often in the night). I do not have any hardware hungry applications running. The freezes occure at normal usage. The only way to solve the freez is a complete hardreset.
I do not have any idear why this problem occures.

So, here is the copy of the console...
the freeze must be happened at 06:51
31.08.11 06:46:57,734 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34817]) posix_spawn("/Applications/ZTE Connection Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Mac_SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac_SwapperD emon", ...): No such file or directory
31.08.11 06:46:57,735 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34817]) Exited with code: 1
31.08.11 06:46:57,735 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
31.08.11 06:48:37,755 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34827]) posix_spawn("/Applications/ZTE Connection Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Mac_SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac_SwapperD emon", ...): No such file or directory
31.08.11 06:48:37,756 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34827]) Exited with code: 1
31.08.11 06:48:37,756 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
31.08.11 06:49:20,362 [0x0-0xb00b].jDownloader: PreDupeChecked: no mirror found!
31.08.11 06:50:17,775 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34838]) posix_spawn("/Applications/ZTE Connection Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Mac_SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac_SwapperD emon", ...): No such file or directory
31.08.11 06:50:17,776 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34838]) Exited with code: 1
31.08.11 06:50:17,776 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
31.08.11 06:51:57,797 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34848]) posix_spawn("/Applications/ZTE Connection Manager.app/Contents/Resources/Mac_SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/Mac_SwapperD emon", ...): No such file or directory
31.08.11 06:51:57,797 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[34848]) Exited with code: 1
31.08.11 06:51:57,797 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
31.08.11 09:56:31,000 bootlog: BOOT_TIME 1314777391 0
31.08.11 09:56:50,644 fseventsd: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (299106 18 310157)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: PMAP: PCID enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: vm_page_bootstrap: 2003326 free pages and 77442 wired pages
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: kext submap [0xffffff7f8072e000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff800072e000]
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: zone leak detection enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: mig_table_max_displ = 72
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: TSC Deadline Timer supported and enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=4 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=6 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=5 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=7 Enabled
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: MAC Framework successfully initialized
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: PFM64 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: [ PCI configuration begin ]
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 6689
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 13:08:12 Jun 18 2011) initialization complete
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: console relocated to 0xf10010000
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: PCI configuration changed (bridge=16 device=5 cardbus=0)
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 12 devices 18 ]
31.08.11 09:56:51,000 kernel: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID c82a14fffe8919c2; max speed s800.

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I have a problem connecting external display (Dell U2311H) to my 13" MacBook Pro (Early 2011).
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Shame on me)
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Rudegar wrote:
your macbook dont support airplay mirror
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