2011 Macbook Air Nightmare
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I'm having a nightmare with a 2011 Macbook Air I was helping someone with.
Spec:
120GB SSD
4GB RAM
1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
It was running a bit slow, so I ran CCleaner on it to clear out the junk on it. This never went well and it started running even slower after that. I then noted it was running OSX 10.7 Lion. I upgraded it to the latest Yosemite thinking that would run well and give the Macbook a new lease of life.
After doing an in-place upgrade, the laptop was still running terrible with random freezing and the beach ball getting stuck on the screen.
I then formatted the hard drive completely and downloaded Yosemite again and did a fresh install on the now blank hard drive.
It ran a wee bit better after that but still hangs frequently and gets stuck with the beach ball on the screen.
After looking into this, it appears lots of people have the same problems with Yosemite. It is hard to believe that a relatively high spec macbook, decent amount on RAM and a SSD can't run the latest OSX without major issues.
The laptop hardly does anything, it only has chrome web browser and Microsoft Office 2011 installed.
Does anyone else have these problems?
I'm not sure what to do next, possible RAM upgrade or try and install Mountain Lion as I can buy that for £15 from Apple. I wasn't keen to install Lion again as it is almost end of life.
Is Lion to Yosemite a huge leap forward in hardware requirements as the two Operating systems look pretty similar and not that large a leap forward.
Any advice would be great!
Spec:
120GB SSD
4GB RAM
1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
It was running a bit slow, so I ran CCleaner on it to clear out the junk on it. This never went well and it started running even slower after that. I then noted it was running OSX 10.7 Lion. I upgraded it to the latest Yosemite thinking that would run well and give the Macbook a new lease of life.
After doing an in-place upgrade, the laptop was still running terrible with random freezing and the beach ball getting stuck on the screen.
I then formatted the hard drive completely and downloaded Yosemite again and did a fresh install on the now blank hard drive.
It ran a wee bit better after that but still hangs frequently and gets stuck with the beach ball on the screen.
After looking into this, it appears lots of people have the same problems with Yosemite. It is hard to believe that a relatively high spec macbook, decent amount on RAM and a SSD can't run the latest OSX without major issues.
The laptop hardly does anything, it only has chrome web browser and Microsoft Office 2011 installed.
Does anyone else have these problems?
I'm not sure what to do next, possible RAM upgrade or try and install Mountain Lion as I can buy that for £15 from Apple. I wasn't keen to install Lion again as it is almost end of life.
Is Lion to Yosemite a huge leap forward in hardware requirements as the two Operating systems look pretty similar and not that large a leap forward.
Any advice would be great!
How much RAM do you think I'll need for Yosemite? Why does an OS need more than 4GB of RAM to run? Especially if it's such a super efficient and great operating system as Apple user always like to say it is?
I come from a Windows background and I'm used to Windows 8.1 flying with a SSD and 4GB of RAM? I thought the latest Apple OSX would have been amazing with that hardware since it's just running Linux in the background
I've got Linux and Windows servers running that have less than 4GB of RAM without any issues. I feel like this MacBook keeps making me look stupid
I come from a Windows background and I'm used to Windows 8.1 flying with a SSD and 4GB of RAM? I thought the latest Apple OSX would have been amazing with that hardware since it's just running Linux in the background
I've got Linux and Windows servers running that have less than 4GB of RAM without any issues. I feel like this MacBook keeps making me look stupid
Edited by rossmc88 on Sunday 14th December 22:15
Edited by rossmc88 on Sunday 14th December 22:15
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