Major Mac nerd help needed - interface issue

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Will Hunt said:
Will Hunt said:
I've got 150Gb left of a 500Gb drive. Is that the problem?

Answers also welcome.

Get an SSD anyway Will - they're about £35 for that size now and generally speed up any computer that had a regular HHD before..
 
Will Hunt said:
Will Hunt said:
I've got 150Gb left of a 500Gb drive. Is that the problem?

Answers also welcome.

No, that should be fine. I had a look at mine (late 2012 iMac) and that’s a 1GB mechanical HD 300GB and Mojave runs fine considering it’s an old machine.

How much RAM is in yours?

Have a look in System Preferences- Users and Groups- Logon Items. That’ll tell you what starts automatically in the background. Sounds like it could be a bigger problem though.
 
Ok, have done the reset RAM thing and cleared the startup programmes (there weren't many and none that seemed significant).

Spec here:
Macbook Pro 13 inch, mid 2012
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536MB
150 GB free on HD

Just tested opening Excel and it took 1min. Takes about 10 seconds to open a 12MB photo in Preview.

I'll restart now and see if boot time is improved.
 
Forgot to mention, it's Mojave 10.14.5.

From putting the password in to get the desktop background rendered: 2m 16s
Rendering desktop icons: +17s
From clicking the taskbar icon to load Chrome: 2m
Even then actually opening a web page then takes ages.

Doing anything at all until it's been on for a bit is a real trial. Opening Excel took about 1m 20s when freshly booted.
 
Sounds like time for a fresh install of the OS (switching to an SSD wouldn’t hurt either)
 
4gb is fuck all nowadays. Check if you can double it, it's not expensive or difficult. However some you can't.
 
Have put in 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. The hardest thing about the whole process was getting the back off the machine. Two trips to the DIY shop to find the appropriate PH000 screwdriver bit. Then that started stripping the heads of two screws which meant I was scared of not being able to get the back off and being permanently stuck with a brick of a laptop and £200 worth of components! Managed to undo the stripped screws eventually.

Second hardest bit was cloning the existing drive - Disk Utility seems to fail when trying to do this now so had to use some 3rd party software.

But now I've just booted up and it took a fraction of the time. It's like a new machine. Everything just...works!

Phew. What a relief! Thanks for the advice, everyone.
 

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