Hi all,
I've got a late 2011 13" MBP that I've done some replacements on that have caught up with me. I work for a nonprofit and store pictures and videos for our organization (any myself). I'm also a data hoarder...like the show but instead of old magazines it's .pdfs of my utility bills.
The computer has really slowed down in the past 4 months to the point where I'm getting 10-20 second beachballs whenever I open a program, or try to 'open with' in Finder (my job means I've usually got 1-2 browsers with 5-10 tabs each open, Excel, photoshop, and Preview) and an additional external display. i know.
Here's what I've got going:
Question 1: If I replace the optical drive with an SSD and run that as my bootable HD and use the existing 2TB as additional storage, would that help my speeds at all? Or am i missing something obvious like bad Ram? Or a huge HD? Or is what I'm proposing even practical (beyond the 7min battery life...)
Question 2: Sorry if this is super obvious, but I've got the 2.8 i7 (which I assume is dual core given my specs)--but unless I want to drop $2k on a new MBP, I'm looking at dual-core i5's. So stand back as I embarrass myself--is that going to be as fast as what I have now?
I see the new specs have like 64MB of eDRAM while the cache numbers on mine are in the 4MB and KB area, but am I comparing apples to tractor tires here?
I just don't want to back myself into an SSD corner here because while not as painful as $2k, I really can't afford to blow $300 on a conversion attempt that would make a real Mac person use me in his/her "you won't believe what this one guy tried..." repertoire at the repair shop.
Help?
I've got a late 2011 13" MBP that I've done some replacements on that have caught up with me. I work for a nonprofit and store pictures and videos for our organization (any myself). I'm also a data hoarder...like the show but instead of old magazines it's .pdfs of my utility bills.
The computer has really slowed down in the past 4 months to the point where I'm getting 10-20 second beachballs whenever I open a program, or try to 'open with' in Finder (my job means I've usually got 1-2 browsers with 5-10 tabs each open, Excel, photoshop, and Preview) and an additional external display. i know.
Here's what I've got going:
OSX 10.11.6 El Cap
2.8Ghz Intel Core i7
Processor Name: Intel Core i716GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Ram
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB Card
2TB hard drive (860GB free)
Question 1: If I replace the optical drive with an SSD and run that as my bootable HD and use the existing 2TB as additional storage, would that help my speeds at all? Or am i missing something obvious like bad Ram? Or a huge HD? Or is what I'm proposing even practical (beyond the 7min battery life...)
Question 2: Sorry if this is super obvious, but I've got the 2.8 i7 (which I assume is dual core given my specs)--but unless I want to drop $2k on a new MBP, I'm looking at dual-core i5's. So stand back as I embarrass myself--is that going to be as fast as what I have now?
I see the new specs have like 64MB of eDRAM while the cache numbers on mine are in the 4MB and KB area, but am I comparing apples to tractor tires here?
I just don't want to back myself into an SSD corner here because while not as painful as $2k, I really can't afford to blow $300 on a conversion attempt that would make a real Mac person use me in his/her "you won't believe what this one guy tried..." repertoire at the repair shop.
Help?