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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 18, 2014 at 09:06 PM
Thanks, Paul and Hugh. For my older MacBook Pro, I think the problem is a bad hard drive. I tried running the Disk Utility under the recovery partition you described, Paul, and it basically told me, BACK UP YOUR FILES AND RUN FOR THE HILLS! For the MacBook Air, I may need to upgrade the RAM, as it only came with 4 GB. I was under the impression that Mavericks was supposed to do a better job of managing memory resources. So much for that.
Thanks again!
Steve Z.
Posted by Paul Korm
May 18, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Ugh, last year all four drives in my MacPro died within a few days. Since they were all born at the same time it was interesting that their lives we so closely related. If you have to replace a drive, consider a SSD. A benefit of a large SSD is that memory paging is nearly as fast as core memory. I run a OS X and Windows 8.1 concurrently along with a ridiculous number of concurrent programs and menu bar apps (35 in the menu bar right now) and have never experienced slow performance. According to tech blogger opinion, this is supposed to be “a bad thing”, but is not.
The trick is the SSD.
Posted by Eduardo Mauro
May 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM
I have been experiencing a strange behavior with my Mac Book Pro in the last 2 weeks. It is brand new and has 16gb of memory and 1tb SSD disk. Sometimes, when I switch it on, it takes almost 12 minutes to boot, i.e., for the the login prompt appear. Last week it happened twice. Saturday morning was the last time. After the upgrade of Maverick this weekend, it didn’t happen again. Does anyone have the same experience or have an explanation?
Posted by Prion
May 19, 2014 at 12:31 PM
Mauro
I have a 2010 or 2011 (I forget) MBP with a 512MB SSD and never experienced the problem you are describing. But then again, I almost never reboot it, just put it to sleep normally. But even when I reboot for the security updates this usually never takes longer than a minute or so even with encryption on.
Does you running a Macbook mean that future versions of ConnectedText will be more Mac-friendly or even running natively on a Mac? This would be just awesome.
Prion
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 20, 2014 at 05:26 PM
As a follow up: I am getting a new hard drive for my 3-plus-year-old MacBook Pro, and upgrading to 8 gigs of RAM from 4 gigs. I’ve opted to keep Mavericks running on it, hoping the more robust RAM will improve performance.
I decided to rollback my newer MacBook Air 11” to Mountain Lion, after I installed a memory meter and saw that I was constantly running on RED amounts of memory. After the rollback, I consistently have over a gig of free memory (that is, the computer has over a gig… me, I’m not so sure). Also, the Air was frequently running hot under Mavericks. It seems much happier under Mount Lion… Anyway, “Mavericks” makes me think of the McCain/Palin ticket and that makes me shudder.
Steve Z.