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
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
Put a SSD drive in your Mac and get a whole new Mac.
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> 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
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
Alex,
Can't own a Mac without DiskWarrior. I would highly recommend. Stops the
beachball.
John
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> 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,
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
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
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
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