Hi,
I have just joined these forums and cannot figure out the search function so I apologize if there is already a thread like mine.
I purchased my Macbook pro last February and have been very happy with it. Last month my hard drive crashed. I was able to get everything back up and functional but ever since it has been really slow (but the battery lasts a lot longer now - weird).
I went to the Apple store and the person helping me told me nothing is wrong with my computer and to just clear the caches. I have done that and the problem has just gotten worse. Now I can barely do anything without seeing a beach ball.
I've been doing some reading up online and I don't think I have any CPU/ memory issues. Currently I have 97% of my CPU idling. More than half of my RAM is either fee or inactive. And I've only used 10% of my hard drive space. I'm not sure what this means but my IO is 7 IO/sec and earlier it was 56 IO/sec.
I'm really frustrated and have no idea of what to do. I'm not too tech savvy so any help would be appreciated.
I was wondering if reformatting would be beneficial? I have lost my Snow Leopard disk but can I reformat with the Lion thumb drive?
Thanks,
Nboogie
I have just joined these forums and cannot figure out the search function so I apologize if there is already a thread like mine.
I purchased my Macbook pro last February and have been very happy with it. Last month my hard drive crashed. I was able to get everything back up and functional but ever since it has been really slow (but the battery lasts a lot longer now - weird).
I went to the Apple store and the person helping me told me nothing is wrong with my computer and to just clear the caches. I have done that and the problem has just gotten worse. Now I can barely do anything without seeing a beach ball.
I've been doing some reading up online and I don't think I have any CPU/ memory issues. Currently I have 97% of my CPU idling. More than half of my RAM is either fee or inactive. And I've only used 10% of my hard drive space. I'm not sure what this means but my IO is 7 IO/sec and earlier it was 56 IO/sec.
I'm really frustrated and have no idea of what to do. I'm not too tech savvy so any help would be appreciated.
I was wondering if reformatting would be beneficial? I have lost my Snow Leopard disk but can I reformat with the Lion thumb drive?
Thanks,
Nboogie