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poor performance

  1. DKerman

    Mac Studio Ultra Poor GPU Performance

    I'm a long time Mac user and "upgraded" from a iMac Pro with an eGpu to a Mac Studio Ultra. What a disappointment. I have never been disappointed with a Mac product like this. I am happy with CPU performance but a lot of my work is GPU based. I can't upgrade, I can't connect an eGpu. I'm stuck...
  2. Jcvlasmesas

    Performance problems on 2011 Macbook Pro

    Hi, I've owned a 2011 15' Macbook Pro since the year it launched, it's been a great computer all of these years and I upgraded the ram from 4gb to 8gb and swapped the mechanical 5200rpm HDD to a 256gb SSD. About 1 year and a half ago my battery almost blew up so I removed and used the computer...
  3. G

    Resolved Macbook Pro 2011 Super Slow because of HDD?

    I have this Macbook Pro from one of my friend. It's from early 2011 and it is running under Mac OS Sierra. I suspect that the hard drive is getting old and I ran a scan with a software called "DriveDx". It was saying that the HDD is running at 79% of its health performance and 6,953 hours Power...