Help with new laptop (super slow)

[Acafaca]

Hello,

I bought a macbook air 2011 11" basemodel (the 64gb SSD, i5 @1.6 and 2gb of ddr3). For some reason its super laggy. None of the animations are smooth, and it can't run basic things like YouTube without major stutters.

its currently running Sierra, didn't fare much better in lion. There isn't a battery in it, ordered it online, currently plugged into wall. The computer seems mint to me.

I saw videos on YouTube with the same one running sierra just 4gb of ram, and they were quite snappy. Also windows PC's with the same amount of ram run fine in windows 7.

Any help?
Thanks in advance.

Also for some reason the ssd has only 20gb left, sierra takes 40gb??

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

That 2gb of ram and slow cpu/gpu are your problem. 

 

OSX likes a good amout of gpu power for animations and is normally running on slower hardware with bad drivers.

[Acafaca]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

That 2gb of ram and slow cpu/gpu are your problem. 

 

OSX likes a good amout of gpu power for animations and is normally running on slower hardware with bad drivers.

Yeah, but the i5 and the integrated one should be fine on windows.

Comparing to similar models, I don't see why they are sooo much faster (youtube 2gb more ram one running way better)
Thanks in advance.

[Its_Twitchyy]

3 minutes ago, Acafaca said:

Hello,

I bought a macbook air 2011 11" basemodel (the 64gb SSD, i5 @1.6 and 2gb of ddr3). For some reason its super laggy. None of the animations are smooth, and it can't run basic things like YouTube without major stutters.

its currently running Sierra, didn't fare much better in lion. There isn't a battery in it, ordered it online, currently plugged into wall. The computer seems mint to me.

I saw videos on YouTube with the same one running sierra just 4gb of ram, and they were quite snappy. Also windows PC's with the same amount of ram run fine in windows 7.

Any help?
Thanks in advance.

Also for some reason the ssd has only 20gb left, sierra takes 40gb??

 

Have to disagree, Windows 7 DOES NOT RUN VERY WELL on 2GB of ram. It'll run, but not well (unless you disable literally every single animation and WinAero)

[Finnskii]

@Acafaca It might be taking up so much space because of other installed programs such as skype or itunes.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Acafaca said:

Yeah, but the i5 and the integrated one should be fine on windows.

But this ins't windows. 

 

 

Is this a fresh install? 

This is also the slowest i5 you can run.

[Christopher_]

Just now, Acafaca said:

Yeah, but the i5 and the integrated one should be fine on windows.

Comparing to similar models, I don't see why they are sooo much faster (youtube 2gb more ram one running way better)
Thanks in advance.

I would say try to upgrade the ram.

but why would you buy such an old MacBook?

they are underpowered when they are new!

[The_Denks]

5 minutes ago, Acafaca said:

Hello,

I bought a macbook air 2011 11" basemodel (the 64gb SSD, i5 @1.6 and 2gb of ddr3). For some reason its super laggy. None of the animations are smooth, and it can't run basic things like YouTube without major stutters.

its currently running Sierra, didn't fare much better in lion. There isn't a battery in it, ordered it online, currently plugged into wall. The computer seems mint to me.

I saw videos on YouTube with the same one running sierra just 4gb of ram, and they were quite snappy. Also windows PC's with the same amount of ram run fine in windows 7.

Any help?
Thanks in advance.

Also for some reason the ssd has only 20gb left, sierra takes 40gb??

 

Thats what you get for buying anything from Apple

[Acafaca]

2 minutes ago, Christopher_ said:

I would say try to upgrade the ram.

but why would you buy such an old MacBook?

they are underpowered when they are new!

Wanted it as a tablet. Also 200 usd.

[TheGhzGuy]

1 minute ago, UberGamerKing said:

Thats what you get for buying anything from Apple

Especially with only 2GB of RAM

[R0w]

2 minutes ago, UberGamerKing said:

Thats what you get for buying anything from Apple

Too true. 

[Acafaca]

3 minutes ago, Christopher_ said:

I would say try to upgrade the ram.

but why would you buy such an old MacBook?

they are underpowered when they are new!

Can't upgrade.

 

[TheGhzGuy]

3 minutes ago, Acafaca said:

Can't upgrade.

 

Is the RAM soldered on to the motherboard?

[Acafaca]

I'm currently using a school PC which has windows 7, 2gb of ram, and a super old lga 775 pentium, and it runs quite well, can watch youtube video's and such without any stutters.

I can also Run multiple windows etc.

 

[Acafaca]

2 minutes ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Is the RAM soldered on to the motherboard?

yeah lmao

[TheGhzGuy]

Just now, Acafaca said:

yeah lmao

I don't know Mac that well, but is there a way to view what processes are taking up the CPU? (I'll also check the minimum requirements for your OS, while I'm at it)

[Acafaca]

1 minute ago, TheGhzGuy said:

I don't know Mac that well, but is there a way to view what processes are taking up the CPU? (I'll also check the minimum requirements for your OS, while I'm at it)

Thanks.

[TheGhzGuy]

Just now, Acafaca said:

Thanks.

So it looks like 2GB is the minimum that OSX Sierra works with. Which basically means "It works, but not very well"

 

Here's how you look at the processes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464

[Acafaca]

1 minute ago, TheGhzGuy said:

So it looks like 2GB is the minimum that OSX Sierra works with. Which basically means "It works, but not very well"

 

Here's how you look at the processes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464

Okay, Currently at school, I can check later. Thanks for your help.

I'm just confused because the same pc with only 2gb more ram runs very well.

 

[TheGhzGuy]

1 minute ago, Acafaca said:

Okay, Currently at school, I can check later. Thanks for your help.

I'm just confused because the same pc with only 2gb more ram runs very well.

 

You said it was Windows 7, correct? Which version of 7?

[Acafaca]

1 minute ago, TheGhzGuy said:

You said it was Windows 7, correct? Which version of 7?

nono, the same mac with 2gb more ram runs sierra well.

I just said a crap pc can run windows 7, and this one should be better.

So macos is just bad?
 

[TheGhzGuy]

1 minute ago, Acafaca said:

nono, the same mac with 2gb more ram runs sierra well.

I just said a crap pc can run windows 7, and this one should be better.

So macos is just bad?
 

I'm a little confused now. How many laptops are we talking about?

[Zodiark1593]

You may check out Activity Monitor to see how much of your Macbook's RAM is being utilized. Given this is a Sandy Bridge processor, the iGPU should be capable of running the desktop fairly smoothly (this isn't the crap iGPUs like the GMA generation for that matter).

I would recommend upgrading the RAM to 4 GB, and performing a fresh install.

 

[Its_Twitchyy]

7 hours ago, Christopher_ said:

I would say try to upgrade the ram.

but why would you buy such an old MacBook?

they are underpowered when they are new!

Not underpowered for normal consumer (think Apple consumers here, not us prosumers, so more web-browsers and photographers/coders)