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Young MacBook Pro very sick, please advise
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<blockquote data-quote="Shoeboat" data-source="post: 1325234" data-attributes="member: 57304"><p>Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7</p><p>Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3</p><p>Startup Disk Macintosh HD</p><p></p><p>I had about 64GB of free space when it happened. My 6 month old 15" MacBook Pro began to struggle a few days ago. I had watched a couple of dvd's and imported some files from my camera. iPhoto and iTunes were both open as well as a few Safari pages and things were getting abnormally slow, every action had a delay followed by the spinning rainbow circle, the importing process froze and a couple of times I had to force quit by holding down the on/off switch.</p><p></p><p>I switched on again after letting it rest for a bit and ended up with just a blue screen and the mouse arrow. No toolbar, no dock. I powered off again and later I had the dock but it would come and go, the finder window was pen but everything was frozen. I took it to an authorized Apple retailer and they said they would need to backup everything, so I bought a 1TB hard drive with me and when I got the laptop back it was back to factory settings and about 40% of my data had been successfully saved, though they didn't re install iLife and all my iTunes and photos have gone, as well as FCP and a whole load of other apps I will ned to re-install or download when I return from my holiday.</p><p></p><p>I now have 732.82 GB available but everything is still disgracefully slow and sluggish for such a young machine with so much free space as if it is threatening to happen again. I do not feel confident enough to import the data that survived or use my laptop again for work until I know what is wrong, but it should be working perfectly and I should not be seeing the spinning rainbow circle (there must be a proper word for this!) but I am despite not overloading it, it should be able to multi task anyway! Safari is particularly slow yet I'm in a decent WIFI zone.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas what the issue is here and what to do next?</p><p></p><p>It should still be under warranty as I bought it in May.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shoeboat, post: 1325234, member: 57304"] Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Startup Disk Macintosh HD I had about 64GB of free space when it happened. My 6 month old 15" MacBook Pro began to struggle a few days ago. I had watched a couple of dvd's and imported some files from my camera. iPhoto and iTunes were both open as well as a few Safari pages and things were getting abnormally slow, every action had a delay followed by the spinning rainbow circle, the importing process froze and a couple of times I had to force quit by holding down the on/off switch. I switched on again after letting it rest for a bit and ended up with just a blue screen and the mouse arrow. No toolbar, no dock. I powered off again and later I had the dock but it would come and go, the finder window was pen but everything was frozen. I took it to an authorized Apple retailer and they said they would need to backup everything, so I bought a 1TB hard drive with me and when I got the laptop back it was back to factory settings and about 40% of my data had been successfully saved, though they didn't re install iLife and all my iTunes and photos have gone, as well as FCP and a whole load of other apps I will ned to re-install or download when I return from my holiday. I now have 732.82 GB available but everything is still disgracefully slow and sluggish for such a young machine with so much free space as if it is threatening to happen again. I do not feel confident enough to import the data that survived or use my laptop again for work until I know what is wrong, but it should be working perfectly and I should not be seeing the spinning rainbow circle (there must be a proper word for this!) but I am despite not overloading it, it should be able to multi task anyway! Safari is particularly slow yet I'm in a decent WIFI zone. Any ideas what the issue is here and what to do next? It should still be under warranty as I bought it in May. [/QUOTE]
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