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Macbook Pro Lag
I have a thirteen inch macbook pro running on 10.9.1 and it has been getting so incredible slow lately. Netflix will lag where the characters words will still go while the actions will fall behind. I will also scroll down and the screen won't move for a good five seconds. It's getting so annoying. Any ideas on what to do? I can't keep restarting it every time it happens.
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Hi there,
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but this is a long-time known issue that apple hasn't fixed in some years now.
Worse yet, the causes, and solutions are so varied that it is hard to predict which one, or combo will work for you, if any. :-(
Having said that, here are the things I know of that people have used to successfully achieve a macbook pro lag fix:
In the order that are easiest to do:
If it all seems web-related: Please, if you are using safari, try installing another web browser. For many people this was the fix.
Try disabling bluetooth.
Try creating a new account, and see if while you are logged into that account the lag issue remains.
If it does, move on. If it doesn't, you have a corrupt file in your old account's profile. You can move things one at a time to the new account, or you could backup the files you personally created on the machine and restore to factory settings, then try again.
If none of those things make a dent, it is time to think about overheating. Does your MBP start doing this after it has been on for a while? Runs fine until it heats up?
Could be a dead/wounded cooling fan, or heatsink inside full of dust.
If that isn't it, there is one really odd thing that has helped many people: Apple had a problem with the supplier of their hard drive cables, which left some of them being intermittent. This leaves the computer trying to communicate with the drive and having to re-send info over and over due to error conditions. Eventually it just fails. When it fails, it fails ugly. Drive corruption is common.
If you get through all that, and have no luck, I can only point you to the Apple Store / S.O.S. Apple hotline.
Please let me know which of these was the solution for you, so I can better help the next person. Take heart: The browser swap to Chrome or Firefox fixes things for most people.
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