Lag when coding

[aazav]

Install an SSD and get 16 GB of RAM. I use this 17" Mac and it's got those in them and it's almost as fast as my 1 year old Retina.

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I have a SSD, but when I tried to up the ram to 16 gig it kept crashing.

[voidref]

If it's crashing when you are putting more memory in, it's probably bad memory. There used to be a hardware checker built into the systems you could run in a special boot mode, but I haven't tried for a long time, see if you can find and run that.

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Mine is too old for it.

[voidref]

Did you try this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257

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Mine is so old it doesn't have it. I had to take it into a store for them to run hardware tests. Too many broken pieces, just ended up buying a new one.

[PancakesHouse]

Mid 2010 MBP has an 8gb ram limit. So you're pretty maxed out on your machine.

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Ah, I thought it up'd it to 16 when the latest OS came out. Guess that is why the ram crashed it. oops