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I've recently changed my hard drive, and no, my macbook pro 2009 does not run mavericks smoothly with 2GB of ram. kernel_task takes 200 to 500MB of ram. Progra

by jokoon 13y ago

I've recently changed my hard drive, and no, my macbook pro 2009 does not run mavericks smoothly with 2GB of ram. kernel_task takes 200 to 500MB of ram. Programs take age to start.

abrowne 13y ago
13-inch or 15-inch? If 13-inch, you may have a bad HD cable.
- jokoon 13y ago
  and whre do I get a new one ?
  - abrowne 13y ago
    At an Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Store (https://locate.apple.com/ https://locate.apple.com/). You can't usually visually identify a bad one, so I wouldn't buy one used.
LoganCale 13y ago
2 GB of RAM is nowhere near enough for OS X anymore. You need 8 GB minimum and 16 GB if you are doing anything substantial.
- jokoon 13y ago
  that's why I don't like OSX. I prefer minimal OSes.
X-Istence 13y ago
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro running Mavericks with 4GB of ram... no problems, Mavericks actually sped up the entire system and has brought an older machine I was getting ready to recycle back to life.