My MacBook Pro is running slow...

DJIcyDiva · May 12th, 2012, 08:42 AM

Hi,
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, and I've noticed recently that it's running really slow. I get the "beachball of death" quite often, and I'm wondering if there is anything that I can do to remedy this problem. I have 14 GB of harddrive space free, so I don't think that could be the problem.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

harroldsheep · May 16th, 2012, 02:42 PM

are you running a browser with a page using Flash? how much RAM do you have?

monokitty · May 16th, 2012, 03:45 PM

Your drive may be failing entirely; consistent with persistent beach ball symptoms for otherwise no reason.

DJIcyDiva · May 16th, 2012, 09:22 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by harroldsheep
	are you running a browser with a page using Flash? how much RAM do you have?

Yes, I keep getting an error with Firefox saying that my flash player crashed. I've updated flash and firefox so I don't know what the issue is.

I have 2GB of ram.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

pm-r · May 16th, 2012, 11:02 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by DJIcyDiva
	Hi, I have a 2007 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, and I've noticed recently that it's running really slow. I get the "beachball of death" quite often, and I'm wondering if there is anything that I can do to remedy this problem. I have 14 GB of harddrive space free, so I don't think that could be the problem. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks

That's a pretty general question to ask without providing any details as to what is actually "slow", and all I read is you have a 2007 MBP, 14 GB of harddrive space free, and 2 GB of RAM (which is pretty minimal).

So what's "slow"???, the Mac OS, the Finder or certain apps or the Internet etc.???