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I'm gonna throw this Macbook out a window.

Jul 14, 2011 5:59AM PDT

I've read the discussions about decreased macbook pro performance, but felt that the scenarios were a bit different than mine. I thought I'd post my symptoms and cross my fingers for some advice.

I'm using:
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM. OS is 10.6.8

This computer has been fine for the past 10 months. I'm a graphic designer running entire Adobe CS apps all at once. Here in the past month, nothing seems to work. I'll reboot, do a P-Ram Flash, wait for it to load at a painstaking rate. I'll open a simple app like... oh, say firefox. I'll have to wait over a minute just for the window to even appear. Now, getting into CS makes me want to slit my wrists. I have to hard restart maybe 4 times a day. After a fresh restart, InDesign takes a good 5 minutes to startup. Today I had the time to repair permissions. Disk Utility said it was going to take 2 hours to repair permissions. I didn't have that kind of time. But in 10 years of being a mac user, I have never seen it take more than 10 minutes to repair permissions.

I do not store any data on the internal drive. Everything is saved to externals. I'm not worried about losing data. I am worried however that I may off myself in the time it takes to do simple tasks. Please help!

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I wonder if the hard drive is starting to fail.
Jul 14, 2011 9:45AM PDT

Just a guess but it sounds like it's time for the Genius Bar.
Bob

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I agree
Jul 14, 2011 10:37AM PDT

I agree, sounds like a classic case of a failing HDD. There are a couple of other possibilities that would turn up during diagnostics, but a bum HDD is probably the best fit.

Since you're still under IW coverage, everything should be taken care of on Apple's dime, assuming you didn't replace the drive with one of your own at some point. But don't wait too long, since that IW coverage is only good for one year from date of purchase, so if you're already at 10 months, you don't have much time left.

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I'm gonna throw this Macbook out the window
Aug 8, 2011 11:33PM PDT

As other people say , your HDD is on the end , I changed my HDD last year to a SSD Drive only 64 GB ,is enough for all the application, with lion I use only 22 GB right now as all my work goes to my external HDD. My boot time is 5-12 seconds and shut down only 1-3 seconds all the time. I worth the money and I don't understand why not more people change. easy to install .