civilchaos
New Member
Hi everyone,
I've had this Macbook Pro since about Jan 2010 (right before the i-generation Intel processors started rolling out on them) and it sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.8 GHz.
Though I don't use it as much, I still haven't managed to purchase a new replacement and I'd really like to get a little more life out of it until I am able to buy something that will suitably replace it.
To that effect, I've had to ditch OS X as Apple ditched support for this device to the point I can't even use many casual apps or services anymore.
I've tried a few linux distros but the issue appears to be hardware related and I've summised it is most likely to do with the SSD, I recall this affecting OS X back when I first did it, but either I got used to the "occasional" hangs (like a browser request getting stuck) or Apple patched it at the time.
Even doing a clean format of the SSD, formatting it to GPT with a 500Gb EFI partition, 16Gb Swap and Ext4 for the root volume, I'm still unable to interact with the system for more than a moment at a time (after VERY long freezes).
Getting to login doesn't take much time, but after this it takes forever to get to desktop and forever to process anything if I click, which is where I believe it is related to the SSD interface.
Over these years I've made a few upgrades that I'll list for reference:
- RAM upgraded from 4GB to 8Gb DDR3
- Optimcal Drive removed and replaced with the original 500Gb HDD (no OS, just general storage)
- Boot Drive replaced with 256Gb SSD
- Current OS is Pop!_OS
Thanks to anyone who might have an idea what can be done, if anything,
civilchaos
I've had this Macbook Pro since about Jan 2010 (right before the i-generation Intel processors started rolling out on them) and it sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.8 GHz.
Though I don't use it as much, I still haven't managed to purchase a new replacement and I'd really like to get a little more life out of it until I am able to buy something that will suitably replace it.
To that effect, I've had to ditch OS X as Apple ditched support for this device to the point I can't even use many casual apps or services anymore.
I've tried a few linux distros but the issue appears to be hardware related and I've summised it is most likely to do with the SSD, I recall this affecting OS X back when I first did it, but either I got used to the "occasional" hangs (like a browser request getting stuck) or Apple patched it at the time.
Even doing a clean format of the SSD, formatting it to GPT with a 500Gb EFI partition, 16Gb Swap and Ext4 for the root volume, I'm still unable to interact with the system for more than a moment at a time (after VERY long freezes).
Getting to login doesn't take much time, but after this it takes forever to get to desktop and forever to process anything if I click, which is where I believe it is related to the SSD interface.
Over these years I've made a few upgrades that I'll list for reference:
- RAM upgraded from 4GB to 8Gb DDR3
- Optimcal Drive removed and replaced with the original 500Gb HDD (no OS, just general storage)
- Boot Drive replaced with 256Gb SSD
- Current OS is Pop!_OS
Thanks to anyone who might have an idea what can be done, if anything,
civilchaos