My macbook air 2009/2010 has the same issue as does my ipad mini. Slow as molasses 2 to 3 years after purchase, impossible to work with.
Android and windows don't have these issues and have only improved in performance over time. Screw apple, never buying one again. Premium my arse...
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You might have the same issue my parent's one had, the kernel was using 3.5gb of ram at idle. Started after upgrading to el capitan.
I couldn't find a fix so just put more ram in as a brute force fix.
My mate has the same era of pro but kept it on Snow Leopard and has no issues.
Aye, it's the OS in most cases (not belittling this news about batteries).
I have a 2006 macpro running 10.6 and it goes like stink.
The 2017 imac in work running 10.12 is barely as good.
Aye Snow Leopard was swift. The problems began after upgrading to lion. My mb air sports a measly 2gb ram giving macos not a whole lot of room to breathe. But even then a 4gb requirement to have basic functionality run smoothly is ridiculous.
And apple doesn't optimise the os for lower end hw.
Underclocking the soc (which I suspect apple is doing) also doesn't help and makes for an awful, awful user experience.
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It’s usually the OS, as Panty says. A newer OS is always designed for newer hardware, running it on older hardware is suboptimal. That’s where your bottlenecks and performance drops come from.
I remember Wired did a big study on this relatively recently (within 2017, anyway) and concluded that urban myths about Apple deliberately hindering performance on older phones were bullshit.
Yet now Apple have said they do it. Which makes Wired look a bit silly.
My company MacBook has a dodgy battery, was starting to behave like an old iPhone and switch itself off with no warning at 20-odd or 30-odd percent charge. So I gave it to our IT support company to fit a new battery.
They’ve just phoned. The battery exploded when exposed to air. My MacBook was actually on fire on the workbench.
Their priority right now is retrieval of all my data from the SSD drive.
You know when you think you’ve been cautious and backed up important stuff before handing the laptop over? I didn’t think to back up my font library. That could really be a problem if lost.
(Ridiculously, I had actually started sorting through my fonts at the weekend for exactly this reason – thinking ahead to getting a new job and needing to rescue my own fonts from the machine before giving it up.)
I have a loaner MacBook from the IT company. They saved my hard drive and cloned it onto this thing, but it still feels like driving somebody else’s car. Stuff’s in the wrong place. Adobe apps have all the wrong control layouts. Ugh.
You know when your Mac asks you to agree to a software update either now or later? Wouldn’t it be great if it mentioned roughly how long the update is gonna take? Wouldn’t it?
Y’know, instead of me agreeing to update now and then “About 39 minutes remaining” appearing on the fucking screen.