Hey Hardware Crew,
Thanks for awesome community.
My mid 2012 Macbook has been suffering from immense slowdown, freezing and crashing as of late. When I say crashing, the computer is completely unresponsive for about 20 mins time. It's worrisome as this is my main workload computer and I need it for my mixing and video production (Pro Tools, Logic, Final Cut).
Im going to bold the important sentences since I want to go into detail.
It's gotten so I bad, Im continuously writing this post on both my Mac and an Ipad because there will be moments when my Mac just completely becomes unresponsive to keystrokes and hangs up while it takes its time to register. Lately the mouse completely becomes unresponsive. Sometimes keyboard shortcut force quit works, sometimes OSX itself is just crashing.... Ive soft rebooted with the power button at least 4 times in the past week, Thats not a good sign to me..... And I just can't think what the hell the issue is... I've backed up my data since about a week ago since I had a hunch but Im honestly thinking about a full wipe and restart. I have a Bootcamp drive that is a 130 GB partition on a 750 drive. I think this is obviously a factor in my issues.
Could it be Chrome? Has anyone had any issues with Chrome on Apple hardware? My Mac has been pretty loaded up with software from before which I need to strip down but I can't recall having these issues until Chrome came along. However, Chrome worked beautifully for me since like the beginning of this year. Now when Im using Chrome, any random click can grind my computer to a halt. Non working mouse, and a truly random loadtime to recover itself, Guaranteed pinwheel.
I truly started to notice this severe slowdown after I installed Bluestacks. Deleted that and still suffering from sudden crashes and hiccups. Its like the problem migrated to Chrome. So I deleted my cache from the beginning and I emptied my trash of about 500+ items including a couple folders of videos. I feel like its helped a little but the problem isn't fully solved.
So I moseyd over to Activity Monitor and with only 3 programs open (Activity, Chrome, Finder) , Its saying Im using 7.98 GB of my 8GB RAM!?? Should my computer be using that much ram for pretty much nothing running in the background? Im totally confused, Is this just a memory issue and its time for 16GB?
This is increasingly annoying as Im trying to start Lionbridge pretty soon. but yeah Im about ready to do a full wipe and refresh..... Any help on suspicion would be super appreciated.
I was actually able to get this typed up and posted on my Mac after about 25 mins of wasted time and 7 pinwheels in Chrome.
Thanks for awesome community.
My mid 2012 Macbook has been suffering from immense slowdown, freezing and crashing as of late. When I say crashing, the computer is completely unresponsive for about 20 mins time. It's worrisome as this is my main workload computer and I need it for my mixing and video production (Pro Tools, Logic, Final Cut).
Im going to bold the important sentences since I want to go into detail.
It's gotten so I bad, Im continuously writing this post on both my Mac and an Ipad because there will be moments when my Mac just completely becomes unresponsive to keystrokes and hangs up while it takes its time to register. Lately the mouse completely becomes unresponsive. Sometimes keyboard shortcut force quit works, sometimes OSX itself is just crashing.... Ive soft rebooted with the power button at least 4 times in the past week, Thats not a good sign to me..... And I just can't think what the hell the issue is... I've backed up my data since about a week ago since I had a hunch but Im honestly thinking about a full wipe and restart. I have a Bootcamp drive that is a 130 GB partition on a 750 drive. I think this is obviously a factor in my issues.
Could it be Chrome? Has anyone had any issues with Chrome on Apple hardware? My Mac has been pretty loaded up with software from before which I need to strip down but I can't recall having these issues until Chrome came along. However, Chrome worked beautifully for me since like the beginning of this year. Now when Im using Chrome, any random click can grind my computer to a halt. Non working mouse, and a truly random loadtime to recover itself, Guaranteed pinwheel.
I truly started to notice this severe slowdown after I installed Bluestacks. Deleted that and still suffering from sudden crashes and hiccups. Its like the problem migrated to Chrome. So I deleted my cache from the beginning and I emptied my trash of about 500+ items including a couple folders of videos. I feel like its helped a little but the problem isn't fully solved.
So I moseyd over to Activity Monitor and with only 3 programs open (Activity, Chrome, Finder) , Its saying Im using 7.98 GB of my 8GB RAM!?? Should my computer be using that much ram for pretty much nothing running in the background? Im totally confused, Is this just a memory issue and its time for 16GB?
This is increasingly annoying as Im trying to start Lionbridge pretty soon. but yeah Im about ready to do a full wipe and refresh..... Any help on suspicion would be super appreciated.
I was actually able to get this typed up and posted on my Mac after about 25 mins of wasted time and 7 pinwheels in Chrome.
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