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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tape" data-source="post: 1633958" data-attributes="member: 178954"><p>My wife uses a 13" macbook pro (edition 8.1) primarily for web stuff.  The other day I used it for some graphics work and found it very slow.  I first thought maybe additional memory would help, but even the stock apple apps take forever to load.  I cleaned the 500Gb HDD of just about all the video there and deleted other things to bring down the HDD to using less than 150 Gb.  I did permissions repair, yet it still takes close to a minute to load Safari after a restart and even longer for iPhoto.  I am thinking now that perhaps the HDD is the fault, although the disk verify says OK.  Maybe replace it with a SSD?  Thoughts?  Suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>