Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

[R. D. Preston]

Hi Alex,

Had many of the same probs you describe, and DiskWarrior uncovered many, many 
bad blocks on the mag disk drive.  Replaced the drive (with Harry’s help), and 
then upped the RAM to 8GB total.  No more difficulty.   : )

-russ


> On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman  wrote:
> 
> My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of spinning 
> beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the dock. I know 
> it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months out of it. Will 
> Yosemite be better or worse for this machine? 
> 
> 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 
> 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
> 
> Alex
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Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

[tom holloman]

Agreed. Saved me many times through the years. 

> On Jan 11, 2016, at 3:02 PM, John Robinson  wrote:
> 
> Alex, 
> 
> Can't own a Mac without DiskWarrior.   I would highly recommend.   Stops the 
> beachball.  
> 
> John
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman  wrote:
>> 
>> My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of 
>> spinning beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the dock. 
>> I know it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months out of 
>> it. Will Yosemite be better or worse for this machine? 
>> 
>> 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 
>> 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
>> 
>> Alex
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Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

[John Robinson]

Alex, 

Can't own a Mac without DiskWarrior.   I would highly recommend.   Stops the 
beachball.  

John

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Alex Whitman  wrote:
> 
> My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of spinning 
> beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the dock. I know 
> it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months out of it. Will 
> Yosemite be better or worse for this machine? 
> 
> 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 
> 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
> 
> Alex
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Re: [MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

[tom holloman]

have you run DiskWarrior andClean My Mac?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Alex Whitman  wrote:

> My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of
> spinning beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the
> dock. I know it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months
> out of it. Will Yosemite be better or worse for this machine?
>
> 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
> 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
>
> Alex
>
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[MacGroup] El Capitan on older MacBook Pro

[Alex Whitman]

My early 2011 13" MBP is struggling with Yosemite (10.10.5). Lots of
spinning beachballs, slow scrolling, and icons bouncing forever in the
dock. I know it's long in the tooth but I'm hoping to get another 6 months
out of it. Will Yosemite be better or worse for this machine?

2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Alex
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