yik Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I have MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011, Processor 2.3 GHz Intel, 4 GB Memory. Running OS X 10.9.5. I would like to ask how to fix/lean up my macbook pro. I am extremely disappointed in recent year or two.I am Mac user since the old days of white plastic MacBooks with PPC processors and 10.2 OS X. I migrated out from Linux. I loved the Unix-based OS with open source components, very much alike to my previous Linuxes. I am not programmer, but I loved Apple “Linux” disto with the support of a strong, corporate player, making sure that everything worked, with no need to compile 3rd party drivers to support things, like waking up from closed lid, working Wifi, and, most importantly the flawlessly working hardware. It was better than linux and better than windows.Over the years, i migrated my data to few newer Macs, and the OS X evolved. I used to love it, as I said, for being swift, sane, unix-based, rock solid, never saw blue screen, yet with nimble and comfortable UI. What I have now is sluggish, super slow, irrational system, with limited access to underlying unix, but with self bloating like on old Windows XP. It seems to know better want I want it to do, and I hate it. It seems to be slower every day, with the infamous beachball as the most common feature, with often non-responsive computer, waiting for something (divine intervention?). How can I get back swift and nimble OS with OS X? Should I get me Ubuntu? How can I remove everything and do something like fresh/clean install? Does it even make sense? Would it be solution? Will it work fast? Responsively?Is there a way to have some “selective” or “manual” migration? I would like to keep my old photos, and my old mp3s, which I have imported to my iTunes, but no legacy {censored}, nothing to slow me down. 15 years of favorites, cookies, and what not from web browsers, I do expect it to slow me down. Not needed. Old Apps, which I did not started for years? No. Kernel Extensions. No. I want my super responsive and fast OS X. As in old days. What is the best way to get there ?! Anyone? I anticipate to use my mac primarily for web browsing, mail, VLC to play movies on my TV, iTunes, and Skype. No rocket science. I do have another computer for computing, say multi physics simulations.to sum up, 1/ how do I do clean install on my mac? I do not have physical media for 10.9 or recent 10.11. Will it even help for speed? 2/ How do I selectively import certain data only? Mails, iTunes, iPhoto? What can be removed from clean install to gain speed and responsivity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codinger Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 As a coder you should know that os is not Linux nor a distro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yik Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 I never claimed to be coder, if so, I do code in R, bash and maybe Python. Nevertheless, back in OS X 10.2 or 10.3 days, it felt like one fancy linux or rather BSD disco, with Aqua being proprietary window manager, and bunch of good proprietary apps, such as mail, iTunes etc, well respecting free standards they came from. Unfortunately, I do not have that feeling anymore, 10.9 and higher are not transparent and are power hungry, full of ballast, untidy undocumented {censored}... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codinger Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 // Why do you think so my hacks are doing their job perfectly fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 max out your ram and replace the hdd with an ssd. your mac has a very slow harddrive 5400 rpm. http://tinyurl.com/77jqjby 4gb of ram really is not suffice for a 64 bit os. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 max out your ram and replace the hdd with an ssd. your mac has a very slow harddrive 5400 rpm. http://tinyurl.com/77jqjby 4gb of ram really is not suffice for a 64 bit os. Yes! and maybe reinstalling OS X from scratch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yik Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 What makes more sense? get 1/ upgrade to 8GB memory (matched pair 4+4) AND SSD drive or 2/ upgrade to 16 GB memory (matched pair 8+8) pair and leave the drive where it is? How much will clean install help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 What makes more sense? get 1/ upgrade to 8GB memory (matched pair 4+4) AND SSD drive or 2/ upgrade to 16 GB memory (matched pair 8+8) pair and leave the drive where it is? How much will clean install help? What exactly is the model of the CPU? A SSD is primordial More gig of ram to If me I reinstall for cleaning the old Sh ....... Spining beach ball = old Sh ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 it should be what you can comfortably afford but the spinning drive at minimum should be replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirusX Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 definitely get an SSD and more RAM. You will be fine with 8 GB RAM and an SSD. Then you can do a clean install with Yosemite or El Capitan or if you like the old style better with Mavericks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codinger Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Buy 128GB SSD. And 8GB should go fine. 5400RPM is even a pain for using it for a Serato DJ library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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