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  1. Sam Leach

    Mid 2010 13-inch Mbp slow SSD performance

    Hi, I have a Mid 2010 13-inch MacBook Pro that I upgraded with a OCZ Vertex 2 120GB (SATA 2) in late 2012. I also put 8GB of RAM in it at the same time. After more than 3 years of use I ran Blackmagic Disk Speed Test today and I am not getting over 100MB/s on either read or write (below). Is...
  2. S

    27-inch Late 2012 3TB Fusion Drive & El Capitan = SLOW

    Hi everyone, Upgraded to El Capitan last week and it hasn't been a great experience. App's are crashing, the wheel of death is a regular occurrence even for the smallest tasks e.g. Apple>About This Mac. The iMac is just generally slow. I time machined about three weeks ago, so I can go back to...
  3. K

    Benchmark - No Safari Option for Query Data Source

    Hi all, I have a late 2011, 15-inch Macbook Pro (processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7; memory: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3; El Capitan), and it seems like Safari (version 9.0.3) has been getting increasingly sluggish. I tried the usual stuff - emptying the cache, clearing the history, deleting favicons...
  4. J

    External display strangeness (conditional lag)

    I've noticed other people in these forums with external display problems on their MacBook Pro. I am one of these people, but this is a strange one... I'm running Boot Camp / Windows 10 on an early 2013 15" MacBook Pro with all the trimmings, maxed out with everything I could buy at the time...
  5. H

    Forums are very slow

    Hi, The forums appear to load very slow on both PC and iOS. Other websites load fine so it's not my network connection. Can this be examined?
  6. suicidejesus666

    kernel_task using more than 400% of my cpu; making the macbook unusable

    Hello there everyone I've been having this issue for a long time now (few months) and it's with my MacBookPro late 2013 15-inch, specs: Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB + NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Storage: 500 GB SSD OS: El Capitan...
  7. VK.

    Slow WI-FI on new MacBook Pro (mid 2015)

    Hi, just bought new MacBook 15'' 10days ago. Excellent machine, except the WI-FI, which sucks strongly. My old MacBook Pro(2011) continues to download data at regular 10Mb/s, and my new computer reaches maximum 2,2Mb/s download speed. Any solutions? Some notes , that matters : * router is...
  8. gk09

    Slow GPU on Os X but fast on Windows after liquid spill

    Hi everyone, I know there are hundreds of "coffee spill" topics on the net but i think my problem/question is a little different. As you guessed, i spilled huge amount of coffee on my 2 month old Macbook pro, immediately turned it off, searched and read people's experiences about that...
  9. S

    Late 2013 Imac 2.9 is so slow

    Hi guys. I have late 2013 iMac, i5, 750M graphic, 8GB ram, standard 5400 RPM HD. Imac is running slow, opening programs takes ages, Excel 10 sec, Ps 30sec, I get spinning cursor even in basic office programs. I am not a heavy user. What is causing this, I reinstalled system and It is the same...
  10. D

    Running super slow in an office environment

    Hey all, I have about 30 mac minis in the office I work in, but I myself have a 15MBPr (correct abbreviation, not sure, sorry if it isn't.) Anyway so we have about 30 minis, all purchased brand new from Apple over the last 1.5yrs. They're all baseline models with 4GB of RAM still, and a...