Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Whitman
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

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-12 Thread Lee Larson
On Jan 12, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > Is replacing the hard drive in a 5 year old laptop the best use of funds? It all depends on what you’re using it for. For years, the PC box makers could push a three-year upgrade cycle because the shiny new boxes were a

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-12 Thread Ed Wiser
Put a SSD drive in your Mac and get a whole new Mac.  Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman 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

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-12 Thread Lee Larson
On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman 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

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-11 Thread John Robinson
Alex, Can't own a Mac without DiskWarrior. I would highly recommend. Stops the beachball. John Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman wrote: > > My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of spinning > beachballs,

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-11 Thread tom holloman
Agreed. Saved me many times through the years. > On Jan 11, 2016, at 3:02 PM, John Robinson wrote: > > Alex, > > Can't own a Mac without DiskWarrior. I would highly recommend. Stops the > beachball. > > John > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 11, 2016, at

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-11 Thread R. D. Preston
Hi Alex, Had many of the same probs you describe, and DiskWarrior uncovered many, many bad blocks on the mag disk drive. Replaced the drive (with Harry’s help), and then upped the RAM to 8GB total. No more difficulty. : ) -russ > On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman

[MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-11 Thread Alex Whitman
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? 2.7 GHz Intel Core

Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

2016-01-11 Thread tom holloman
have you run DiskWarrior andClean My Mac? On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Alex Whitman 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