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Mid 2012 MacBook Pro really slow

Hi all,

I have a mid 2012 macbook pro (on os sierra), and it's starting to really bug me, so don't know if its worth trying to update some things or just get a new one.

It's become very slow and laggy - doesn't like too much being open and running at once, can take a while to switch between things, can take AGES to open programs and even when trying to do things within programs I frequently get the spinning colour wheel. Itunes crashes regularly .. and other little things that annoy me. Other than that it all seems ok. I have started an online course so I need a reliable and FAST computer! I don't know too much about it, but I've read about a putting in a SSD as well as upgrading from 4gb to 8gb ram.

I've researched and tried all the usual things to try speed it up but nothing has worked. And I'm only at about 250 of the 500g available.

So is it worth trying to fix it? And more importantly will it work? Don't want to fork out a few hundred if it doesn't change anything. Also not fond of the idea of the over $1700 for a new one.. they sure have gone up a lot since I bought mine!

Have posted the hardware overview below incase it's relevant - no idea if it is! Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 3 MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Boot ROM Version: MBP91.00D3.B15

  SMC Version (system): 2.2f44

  Serial Number (system): C1MN47MWDTY3

  Hardware UUID: 2E4EFCCA-03A5-5F44-B01A-72D775D3289D

  Sudden Motion Sensor:

  State: Enabled

Hello kjm85,

I wrote a little diagnostic program to help show what might be causing these problems. Download EtreCheck from https://www.etrecheck.com, run it, and paste the results here. EtreCheck is perfectly safe to run, does not ask for your password to install, and is signed with my Apple Developer ID.

Generally, you can't go wrong by adding an SSD and upgrading the RAM. There might be some other cause like a misbehaving system modification. Or your existing hard drive could be failing. EtreCheck will include a rough performance measure. If it says "below average" or "poor", then your hard drive could be dying.

Disclaimer: Although EtreCheck is free, there are other links on my site that could give me some form of compensation, financial or otherwise.

thank you! I ran it - doesn't look too good, but no idea what it all means:

EtreCheck version: 3.4.4 (448)

Report generated 2017-08-23 20:48:09

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime: 6:28

Performance: Below Average

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Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Click the [Clean up] link to delete unused files.

Problem: Computer is too slow

Hardware Information: ⓘ

    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)

    [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2

    1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-3210M) CPU: 2-core

    4 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

        BANK 0/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

    Handoff/Airdrop2: supported

    Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

    Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 874

Video Information: ⓘ

    Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 1536 MB

        Color LCD 1280 x 800

Disk Information: ⓘ

    APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 disk0: (500.11 GB) (Rotational)

    [Show SMART report]

        EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) <not mounted>  [EFI]: 210 MB

        (disk0s2) <not mounted>  [CoreStorage Container]: 499.25 GB

        Recovery HD (disk0s3 - Journaled HFS+) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

    HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS41N  ()

USB Information: ⓘ

     USB20Bus

         hub_device

             hub_device

                Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

                Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

     USB20Bus

         hub_device

            Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

     USB30Bus

Thunderbolt Information: ⓘ

    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Virtual disks: ⓘ

    Macintosh HD (disk1 - Journaled HFS+) /  [Startup]: 498.88 GB (220.69 GB free)

        Physical disk: disk0s2 499.25 GB Online

System Software: ⓘ

    macOS Sierra  10.12.4 (16E195) - Time since boot: about one day

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

    Mac App Store and identified developers

Clean up: ⓘ

    /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist

        /Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 5/iStatMenusDaemon

        Executable not found!

    ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nero.HSMMonitor.plist

        /Applications/HTC Sync Manager.app/Contents/Resources/HSMMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HSMMonitor -runMode autoLaunched

        Executable not found!

    2 orphan files found. [Clean up]

Kernel Extensions: ⓘ

        /Library/Extensions

    [loaded]    com.bitdefender.SelfProtect (1.2.8 - SDK 10.8) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.bitdefender.TMProtection (5.0.0 - SDK 10.11) [Lookup]

        /System/Library/Extensions

    [not loaded]    com.sony.driver.prs2 (1.0.3d1) [Lookup]

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [failed]    com.apple.SocialPushAgent.plist (Apple, Inc. - installed 2017-05-07)

    [not loaded]    6 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    169 Apple tasks

    [running]    73 Apple tasks

    [killed]    33 Apple tasks

    33 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

    [not loaded]    43 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    175 Apple tasks

    [running]    79 Apple tasks

    [killed]    22 Apple tasks

    22 processes killed due to insufficient RAM

Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [failed]    com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.cc24aef4a1b90ed56a725c38014c95072f92651fb65e1bf9c8e43c37a2 3d420d.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-06-23) [Lookup]

    [running]    com.bitdefender.antivirusformac.plist (? 17d3b6ae 197278a4 - installed 2017-07-24) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.epson.esua.launcher.plist (Seiko Epson Corporation - installed 2017-07-30) [Lookup]

    [not loaded]    com.sony.ReaderDesktop.RunReaderDesktop.plist (? 7f1377b1 918646fc - installed 2014-10-25) [Lookup]

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-06-23) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2017-06-23) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (? 2afb3af7 85012398 - installed 2017-07-25) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.bitdefender.AuthHelperTool.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2017-07-24) [Lookup]

    [running]    com.bitdefender.agent.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2017-07-15) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.bitdefender.upgrade.plist (Bitdefender SRL - installed 2017-07-21) [Lookup]

    [failed]    com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist (? c5619db9 0 - installed 2017-07-10) [Lookup] - /Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 5/iStatMenusDaemon: Executable not found!

    [loaded]    com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-01-24) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2017-08-17) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (Microsoft Corporation - installed 2015-08-15) [Lookup]

User Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [loaded]    com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (Dropbox, Inc. - installed 2017-08-11) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist (Google, Inc. - installed 2017-07-11) [Lookup]

    [running]    com.imobie.silentcleanserver.plist (iMobie Inc. - installed 2017-01-18) [Lookup]

    [loaded]    com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Scheduler.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2017-01-24) [Lookup]

    [failed]    com.nero.HSMMonitor.plist (? 625a221d 0 - installed 2017-06-15) [Lookup] - /Applications/HTC Sync Manager.app/Contents/Resources/HSMMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HSMMonitor: Executable not found!

    [running]    com.pia.pia_manager.plist (? c14cac60 2fc34e04 - installed 2016-02-05) [Lookup]

User Login Items: ⓘ

    Flux    Application

        (/Applications/Flux.app)

    iTunesHelper    Application (? 0 - installed 2017-07-20)

        (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

    Google Chrome    Application

        (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)

    readerAppHelper    Application

        (/Applications/Reader.app/Contents/Resources/readerAppHelper.app)

    Dropbox    Application

        (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

    AdobeResourceSynchronizer    Application

        (/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app/Contents/Helpers/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 17.012.20095 (installed 2017-08-11) [Lookup]

    FlashPlayer-10.6: 26.0.0.151 (installed 2017-08-08) [Lookup]

    QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (installed 2017-05-07)

    AdobePDFViewer: 17.012.20095 (installed 2017-08-11) [Lookup]

    Flash Player: 26.0.0.151 (installed 2017-08-08) [Lookup]

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

    Flash Player (installed 2017-07-25) [Lookup]

Time Machine: ⓘ

    Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

         5%   coreaudiod

         5%   WindowServer

         4%   Google Chrome Helper

         4%   kernel_task

         3%   Google Chrome

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

    543 MB    kernel_task

    317 MB    Google Chrome Helper

    160 MB    Google Chrome

    145 MB    Google Chrome Helper

    102 MB    AdobeReader

Top Processes by Network Use: ⓘ

    Input     Output    Process name

    2 MB      454 KB    mDNSResponder

    461 KB    460 KB    Dropbox

    111 KB    12 KB     Mail

    24 KB     32 KB     netbiosd

    8 KB      8 KB      apsd

Top Processes by Energy Use: ⓘ

     11.00 coreaudiod

      7.90 WindowServer

      4.28 RdrCEF

      4.26 RdrCEF

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

    658 MB    Available RAM

    62 MB     Free RAM

    3.36 GB   Used RAM

    596 MB    Cached files

    237 MB    Swap Used

Software installs: ⓘ

    EPSON Printer Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Scan:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    Epson Scanner ICA Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Printer Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Scan:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    Epson Scanner ICA Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Software Updater:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Software Updater:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Printer Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Scan:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    Epson Scanner ICA Driver:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Software Updater:  (installed 2017-07-30)

    EPSON Printer Driver:  (installed 2017-07-31)

    EPSON Scan:  (installed 2017-07-31)

    Epson Scanner ICA Driver:  (installed 2017-07-31)

    PDF Reader Pro Free: 2.0 (installed 2017-08-02)

    Adobe Flash Player:  (installed 2017-08-08)

    Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (17.012.20095):  (installed 2017-08-12)

    Photos Duplicate Cleaner: 1.8 (installed 2017-08-14)

    Microsoft AutoUpdate:  (installed 2017-08-17)

    Install information may not be complete.

Diagnostics Information: ⓘ

    2017-08-23 13:00:16    Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app Hang [Open]

    2017-08-22 13:48:48    Last shutdown cause: 3 - Hard shutdown

    2017-08-21 18:15:34    iTunes.app High CPU use [Open] [Details]

Try uninstalling your antivirus software and see if it improves. Apple includes antivirus capabilities  the operating system. Make sure to restart before testing again. If it doesn't get twice as fast, then I suggest upgrading your RAM and replacing your hard drive with an SSD.

thanks for the help and advice! Will try that

最後更新：2017-08-23 19:55:54

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