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    What is the best Mac OS for MBP Early 2011 8,1 with 2.3 GHz 2nd Gen Core i5, 16Gb RAM, 500GB SSD?

    Hello there, It's August 2019 AND have got Macbook Pro Early 2011 - 8,1 with following specs: 2.3 GHz 2nd Generation Core i5 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB 312 GB HDD Currently Running: OS Sierra PROBLEMS: Extremely SLOW PERFORMANCE w.r.t. boot-up time / app-launching...
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    Disk Utility won’t let me install MacOS

    For the past few days I’ve been looking for a way to reset my MacBook Air and I thought it would be simple and so I looked it up and I forgot to backup but I didn’t think it mattered so I deleted my old Macintosh HD in disk utility and then tried to reinstall MacOS but it keeps giving the “Could...
  3. bapurba007

    MacBook Air prohibitory sign on screen

    Lately I wanted to format my MacBook Air 2016 edition and for that I thought I should eject and erase Macintosh HD too and well somehow I did it and now I cannot install OS High Sierra on my MacBook Air because I have no storage slot for it. The “Macintosh HD” is gone and I’m left with OSX Base...
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    Resolved 2011 iMac 27" EMC 2429 Clean Install OS

    Hi all, Thanks in advance. I tried to perform a clean install of MacOS High Sierra on my 2011 iMac 27" (EMC2429) using these instructions* (created a bootable USB); however it's been failing. Specifically, after erasing the "Macintosh HD" it tried to install Sierra from the bootable USB disk...
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    Unable to perform fresh install Macbook Pro MID-2012

    Hello everybody, i really need your help cause i'm getting mad here!! Suddenly my mid-2012 MB Pro became incredibly slow (for example to open a picture it took 3 minutes more or less) so i thought could be the a damage to the 500 GB internal drive hard drive (after 6 yeas of usage seems...
  6. miketurner201

    recovery iPhoto library

    My main question is how do I get my iPhoto library back on my Mac ? I’m was running macOS High Sierra Public Beta 1 And I started getting a constant restart saying ‘your computer restarted because of a problem. The log shows there is a panic report with the kernel trap. The only way out of the...