But often apps will continue to keep things in RAM, even if they’re not actually running. Simply quitting out of some apps can free up some RAM.
If the graph is red, your RAM space is nearly or completely full If it’s yellow, you might be running low. If the graph is green, you have plenty of RAM left.
Go to the Memory tab and look for the Memory Pressure graph at the bottom of the windowģ. Open Activity Monitor from Applications > Utilities > Activity MonitorĢ. Killing background processes can claw back some speedġ. Without RAM, everything you do on your Mac would take a lot longer.īut like your hard drive, your RAM can get full. In contrast, your Mac hard drive is used for long-term storage, but it’s much, much slower. Your Mac’s random access memory (RAM) is where it stores temporary information for quick access. In most cases, though, it’s usually caused by one of the issues we’ve listed here. But other times you have no choice but to try lots of different things, one by one, until you find what’s slowing down your Mac. Sometimes, there are clues that tell where the problem lies. It could be any one of them, a combination of two or more, or it could be something else entirely. How do you even know which one of these factors is slowing down your Mac? There’s no easy answer to that question.
How to work out what’s slowing down your Mac
Your Mac is too old to support modern software.Your browser has too many extensions installed.You have apps storing too many log files and caches.There are too many files on your desktop.These are some of the most common reasons for a slow running Mac:
Just download MacKeeper and let it optimize your Mac for you. It’s always better to prevent Mac slowdown than deal with the consequences. But why is your Mac so slow sometimes? There are countless potential causes, but there are a few that tend to occur more often. Apps take ages to open, browsing is sluggish and you’re frequently left waiting while your computer thinks about what to do next. And sorry for long post, and thanks in advance for any suggestions that you don’t see here.For Mac owners, there are few things as frustrating as poor performance. Sorry, if I should have started a new topic, but this one existed with the same description. Bad firmware write? Where do I find just the firmware to write? The wider drive cable needed that’s for 2012 on a 2010? I’m ready for your smart ideas. SATA III issue? Where can I even find a SATA II SSD? Is it a firmware issue? As I said 10.13 was installed, and has the firmware for SSD and for APFS drive settings. The only model I’ve seen that just doesn’t fly across the table in happiness with an SSD.Ĭould it be the SATA II vs. Or, post in support if I know the answer or have been through it. I don’t like to post, I like to read so I don’t have to post. Now, after 15 years of seeing almost everything, I’m completely stumped and really tired of searching for hours and hours to no avail. I do that, all the way to the connector on the logic board it is not touching any aluminum. I read to line the cage where the SSD fits with nylon electrical tape to help insulate the drive cable from shorting. I search, starting here, and find this thread among others. I put the original back in, fast as normal (not fast ssd though), and sellable to a needy client.
I select the SSD as the startup disk, restart. Everytime I click the mouse - color wheel. Now I have my new cable, new SSD, ready to go. So, I assume I got a bad SSD (although it formats fine in my 2019 MBP). Same exact results, but 9 hours to build a 34 minute system drive. But, wait, it works fast and fine on the rotational drive.
WHATTT? Bad comm to the drive = bad cable. It starts to calculate the time to install, 9 minutes, then 45 minutes, then 1 hour 53 minutes, come back in about a half hour it says 7 hours, 23 minutes. It goes through the normal steps (language, disk utility, etc.) Then it starts the build to the SSD. I formatted it, as normal, and ready to build via my USB with High Sierra natively supported. I just put one in a 2008 MacBook and it is lightning fast, as expected.īut, this 2010 is about to cause me to lose my last 5 hairs. The ADATA 240 or 480 SATA III is what I use on all my rebuilds, never an issue.
Help, never have I seen this in 15 years…Ģ010 MacBook Pro, 2.4ghz C2D, 8 gig ram, (320 original rotational drive) 240 ADATA SSD upgrade attempted, but failed.