Hi Andrew, If you were to change the drive then I wouldn't suggest anything other than going an SSD, even a 7200 RPM drive is not going to add much but an SSD will change things dramatically.
A spindle drive will not add much to things. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2017 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Macbook pro 2012 running slow Tim, Thanks for this. Do you think that installing a different drive that's faster might make a difference rather than SSD? It's just that I don't think the owner would consider. Can one install/swap the 5400 drive for a faster drive? Andrew > On 2 Jan 2017, at 18:30, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In my opinion, a clean install would most likely have very minimal impact on > the speed of that unit. We have a number of those at work and I have had > quite a few complaints from the users with respect to slowness and such like > you're reporting. These users are not VO users either. Performance can be > improved either with more RAM or with the installation of an SSD. Bumping it > up to 8 GB RAM improves it somewhat, at least I got less complaints. Bumping > it up to 16 GB RAM improved things even more. The installation of the SSD > would make the biggest impact though. The one user that I installed 16 GB of > RAM with a new SSD thought that they had a new computer. They were able to > use Adobe Premiere with ease after the update which is a very memory and > processor intensive application. The 500 GB drives in those units are only > 5400 RPM units and with 4 GB RAM, they just don't have the horsepower to run > things in Sierra comfortably. In fact, even El Capitan was giving that > configuration quite a work out. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jan 2, 2017, at 11:09, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > > Listers, > > I'd like to ask your advise. A friend of mine has a 2012 macbook pro with > 4GB RAM, 2.4 GHZ processor and non-solid 500GB drive. It seem to run rather > frustratingly slowly. It regularly freezes and generally applications take a > long time to open. Do you think it would be worth while to do a clean > install of Sierra on it? I'd appreciate any comments here. I understand > that rotating hard drives take a bit longer but it is after all 2.4 GHZ and > they don't even use Voiceover. I know it's slightly of topic, but I would be > doing their clean install using Voiceover in the process. > > Andrew > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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