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Macbook Pro 13” (mid 2012) speed problem, or is it me?
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<blockquote data-quote="Buc021" data-source="post: 1492308" data-attributes="member: 273419"><p>1. 4GB (during the video you will see how much RAM is free)</p><p>2. Out of 500GB I have 250GB free space</p><p>3. I checked it (without providing the screenshot) after recording the video and it would show </p><p> the normal programs that use memory (Outlook, Mail, Chrome, Safari)</p><p></p><p>I am aware that restarting the Mac gives you a better system state, but it seems strange to me that if I have over 2GB of RAM free, no special programs open (apart from the ones I mentioned) it is still taking 16 bounces for Opera to open. As an example, with 10% more memory free when restarting the Mac, it takes 7 bounces. </p><p></p><p>Today for instance I had my computer returning from sleep-mode, waited a while. Opened Outlook, and the beach ball would appear 3-4 times within a single minute (e.g. going from inbox to sent items, clicking on a mail within Outlook). The beach ball would also appear sometimes when switching to Safari and refreshing a page (having Outlook,Mail, Chrome open) It is perhaps just for 3-4-5 seconds, but it is annoying at times knowing that I have an i5 2,5ghz processor and lots of free RAM and I am technically minded enough to see that nothing could be hogging my system when looking at activity monitor.</p><p></p><p>I know that running many programs at the same time could slow down the system, but I dont find it normal to have Mail, Outlook, Safari and Chrome running (just 4 programs), having 2+GB of RAM free to get into situations that my Mac just stops working (either freezes temporarily 2-3 seconds) or encountering the beach ball.</p><p></p><p>If I increase the RAM to 8GB, would that make a really huge difference?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buc021, post: 1492308, member: 273419"] 1. 4GB (during the video you will see how much RAM is free) 2. Out of 500GB I have 250GB free space 3. I checked it (without providing the screenshot) after recording the video and it would show the normal programs that use memory (Outlook, Mail, Chrome, Safari) I am aware that restarting the Mac gives you a better system state, but it seems strange to me that if I have over 2GB of RAM free, no special programs open (apart from the ones I mentioned) it is still taking 16 bounces for Opera to open. As an example, with 10% more memory free when restarting the Mac, it takes 7 bounces. Today for instance I had my computer returning from sleep-mode, waited a while. Opened Outlook, and the beach ball would appear 3-4 times within a single minute (e.g. going from inbox to sent items, clicking on a mail within Outlook). The beach ball would also appear sometimes when switching to Safari and refreshing a page (having Outlook,Mail, Chrome open) It is perhaps just for 3-4-5 seconds, but it is annoying at times knowing that I have an i5 2,5ghz processor and lots of free RAM and I am technically minded enough to see that nothing could be hogging my system when looking at activity monitor. I know that running many programs at the same time could slow down the system, but I dont find it normal to have Mail, Outlook, Safari and Chrome running (just 4 programs), having 2+GB of RAM free to get into situations that my Mac just stops working (either freezes temporarily 2-3 seconds) or encountering the beach ball. If I increase the RAM to 8GB, would that make a really huge difference? [/QUOTE]
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