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Hi All!
In August of last year I bought a MB and at the time was happy with my purchase. I was just so sick and tired of all the issues with PC's. I wanted a laptop that would perform and not have to update my OS every 2 days that would make some other program incompatible or buggy. The MB I purchased was the mid 2010 (13-inch, 250 HD, upgraded ram 4G). Well....I still needed to run windows on it because I had too many programs that were windows only. So I purchased Parallels. And that's when my problems began.
It was so slow and clunky to the point that it aggravated me enough to move back to my old PC. I used the MB for about 2 months (if that) before I was ready to just throw it out. Even when I was running Mac only it was painfully slow. So I just let the MB sit on a shelf until last week when the PC starting giving me the blue screen of death. So I picked the MB back up and started trying to use it again. Slow as all get it up it was.
I started reading on here about how happy people were with their MB's and I just couldn't figure out why I wasn't experiencing the same thing. So I said I'm taking this thing to the Apple store to see if they could help me. Wouldn't you know the problem was so noob related it was embarrassing. All the tech did was kill all of the programs in the start up folder and lo and behold. All of the memory was released and things began to work a lot a better.
The tech told me that with the type of programs I was running on the MB that I would have limitations. She told me that I could try Bootcamp instead of Parallels so that windows wouldn't compete with mac OS, however it would still be slow but a lot better than what I have now. I wasn't happy about that but at least my ole MB did work better.
But....I was IN the Apple store with a big shiny MBP staring at me and I was staring back at it. It started whistling at me. It kept calling my name and winking at me. I couldn't resist it anymore so I walked straight over there and started playing with it. OMG was that thing so awesome. It was quick, very responsive and one handsome devil. Once I got my hands on that thing I couldn't let it go.
I tell you what? I walked out of there today with my brand new MBP (15 inch) with upgraded ram to 8G's. This thing works so flawlessly that I just can't put it down. The people at the Apple store are so helpful and knowledgeable about their products. I learned quite a few nuggets while there as well.
So I am now a happy switcher and will hang around here more so that I can really learn how to use it better this time. This laptop is just the bomb! ;D
In August of last year I bought a MB and at the time was happy with my purchase. I was just so sick and tired of all the issues with PC's. I wanted a laptop that would perform and not have to update my OS every 2 days that would make some other program incompatible or buggy. The MB I purchased was the mid 2010 (13-inch, 250 HD, upgraded ram 4G). Well....I still needed to run windows on it because I had too many programs that were windows only. So I purchased Parallels. And that's when my problems began.
It was so slow and clunky to the point that it aggravated me enough to move back to my old PC. I used the MB for about 2 months (if that) before I was ready to just throw it out. Even when I was running Mac only it was painfully slow. So I just let the MB sit on a shelf until last week when the PC starting giving me the blue screen of death. So I picked the MB back up and started trying to use it again. Slow as all get it up it was.
I started reading on here about how happy people were with their MB's and I just couldn't figure out why I wasn't experiencing the same thing. So I said I'm taking this thing to the Apple store to see if they could help me. Wouldn't you know the problem was so noob related it was embarrassing. All the tech did was kill all of the programs in the start up folder and lo and behold. All of the memory was released and things began to work a lot a better.
The tech told me that with the type of programs I was running on the MB that I would have limitations. She told me that I could try Bootcamp instead of Parallels so that windows wouldn't compete with mac OS, however it would still be slow but a lot better than what I have now. I wasn't happy about that but at least my ole MB did work better.
But....I was IN the Apple store with a big shiny MBP staring at me and I was staring back at it. It started whistling at me. It kept calling my name and winking at me. I couldn't resist it anymore so I walked straight over there and started playing with it. OMG was that thing so awesome. It was quick, very responsive and one handsome devil. Once I got my hands on that thing I couldn't let it go.
I tell you what? I walked out of there today with my brand new MBP (15 inch) with upgraded ram to 8G's. This thing works so flawlessly that I just can't put it down. The people at the Apple store are so helpful and knowledgeable about their products. I learned quite a few nuggets while there as well.
So I am now a happy switcher and will hang around here more so that I can really learn how to use it better this time. This laptop is just the bomb! ;D