Hi all, and Lee, thank you for answering the question I meant to ask instead of the one my fingers typed. I meant would El Cap run better on this machine than Yosemite does.
I moved up to Yosemite in early October, so I'm pretty sure it's finished all the indexing it needs to do by now. Is replacing the hard drive in a 5 year old laptop the best use of funds? I will run DW and see what happens. Good to know El Cap is a viable upgrade. Thank you. Alex On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: > > My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of > spinning beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the > dock. I know it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months > out of it. Will Yosemite be better or worse for this machine? > > > I often use an early 2009 MacBook Pro with El Capitan. It runs pretty well > — better than it did with Yosemite. > > 8 GB RAM > 1 T Seagate hybrid hard drive > 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo > > How long have you waited after installing the new operating system? When > you install a major upgrade of OS X, it does a lot of indexing at first. > This causes the spinning rainbow pizza of patience to appear a lot during > the first few days. > > If the problems persist, I suggest running something like TechTool or Disk > Warrior on the hard drive. Replacing it with an SSD or hybrid drive makes a > big difference. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> >
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