2 2010 macbook pro's --- vast performance differences....

[George Rachor]

I got the 17” just before Ecobinary moved from the Beaverton location.  I have heard they are no more.

They both have ESET internet security but will run Malware bytes in the morning.

George


> On Aug 20, 2020, at 10:58 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
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> Do you have “Tech Tool Pro”, or anything like that?  It sounds like you need to run some diag’s on the 17” one.  Something isn’t right.  If nothing else, run the mac disk check on it.  I’m a big believer in DiskWarrior on the Mac.  
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> I assume these are the ones you got from Eco?  That was a great tip, my wife and I are loving ours.  Any idea if they’re still around?  I stopped in at the new location in January, but I see the website is down now.
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> Zane
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>> On Aug 20, 2020, at 10:50 PM, George Rachor <george.rachor at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I’ll check in the morning but believe the 2 machines are identical except for screen size.  I’ll also check for the same version of Parallels.  I assume since these are 2010 machines I could upgrade the Parallels to current.  They are both running High Sierra.
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>> On startup the 17” <the slower one>. Takes a very long time to show the desktop icons.  I have the feeling the problem isn’t Parallels as there is slowness in email and iTunes without Parallels being started up.
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>> George
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>>> On Aug 20, 2020, at 10:44 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 20, 2020, at 5:14 PM, George Rachor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>>> I have 2 2010 macbook pro's. Each have 8GB of Ram and both have a 2 TB hybrid seagate hard drives. Running Windows via Parallels. 15 inch system have reasonable perfomance. 17 inch system just crawls running windows. With RAM maxed out what else should I be looking for?
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>>> Do they have the same CPU’s, and the same version of Parallels?  Might be something with the Windows install on the one?
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>>> Zane
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