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<blockquote data-quote="vexor" data-source="post: 1656403" data-attributes="member: 350507"><p>Okay so,</p><p>I have a Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I can barely write normally from here, the typing keeps on freezing as many other features in the system (apps, basic tasks, etc)</p><p>Specs:</p><p>8GB RAM DDR3 1600MHz</p><p>1GB Intel HD Graphics 4000</p><p>Intel Core i7 @ 2.6GHz</p><p>750GB Internal HDD</p><p> </p><p>The macbook was used from 2012 to the last week, it had almost a full hard drive and it was running as slow as ****, but we assumed it was the low HDD space left that was causing it.</p><p>Backed it up (we got a 15" new macbook from the year so I use the 13" one now) and started with Command + R, used the Mavericks installation that comes with the macbook and formatted the hard drive and ran a clean install on Mavericks.</p><p>Everything went perfect, I created my user and logged in. From the first moment I noticed it was still as slow as before the format, so I waited until indexing was finished. The problem persisted. I get the spinning wheel like every one or two minutes, when browsing it takes a lot of time, sometimes you can't scroll on pages. Everything is just so slow.</p><p> </p><p>Checked the activity monitor, shows a maximum CPU usage with apps running of 25% (75% CPU is idle). The RAM used by programs is about 1.5GB but I generally have less than 4GB free (I know that Mavericks makes use of free RAM because unused RAM is wasted RAM, but to the point of leaving me at 250MB free RAM and the computer running slower than a toaster seems kinda stupid). I'm holding this thing with MemoryClean but it makes no difference.</p><p> </p><p>Tried resetting NVRAM and I think I reset the SMC too, no results.</p><p> </p><p>I am considering bringing it to Apple so they can see what the **** is going on, but I'd like to know if the issue can be solved from home.</p><p> </p><p>Any ideas?</p><p> </p><p>Thanks in advance,</p><p>Jose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vexor, post: 1656403, member: 350507"] Okay so, I have a Mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I can barely write normally from here, the typing keeps on freezing as many other features in the system (apps, basic tasks, etc) Specs: 8GB RAM DDR3 1600MHz 1GB Intel HD Graphics 4000 Intel Core i7 @ 2.6GHz 750GB Internal HDD The macbook was used from 2012 to the last week, it had almost a full hard drive and it was running as slow as ****, but we assumed it was the low HDD space left that was causing it. Backed it up (we got a 15" new macbook from the year so I use the 13" one now) and started with Command + R, used the Mavericks installation that comes with the macbook and formatted the hard drive and ran a clean install on Mavericks. Everything went perfect, I created my user and logged in. From the first moment I noticed it was still as slow as before the format, so I waited until indexing was finished. The problem persisted. I get the spinning wheel like every one or two minutes, when browsing it takes a lot of time, sometimes you can't scroll on pages. Everything is just so slow. Checked the activity monitor, shows a maximum CPU usage with apps running of 25% (75% CPU is idle). The RAM used by programs is about 1.5GB but I generally have less than 4GB free (I know that Mavericks makes use of free RAM because unused RAM is wasted RAM, but to the point of leaving me at 250MB free RAM and the computer running slower than a toaster seems kinda stupid). I'm holding this thing with MemoryClean but it makes no difference. Tried resetting NVRAM and I think I reset the SMC too, no results. I am considering bringing it to Apple so they can see what the **** is going on, but I'd like to know if the issue can be solved from home. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Jose. [/QUOTE]
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