Do you regularly shut it down, or leave it on all of the time?
I used to just sleep it for weeks at a time, usually just shut the lid, perhaps give it a reboot every 2 or 3 weeks. These days I don’t use it quite as much as I used to, and as the battery is shagged, I just shut down every time same as I would a PC.
Is the uneven RAM causing an issue possibly? Crucial suggest installing matched pairs of RAM sticks iirc.
Mine is one of the 2nd Generation MacBookPro’s, with the weird anomoly of only being able to accept 3GB of RAM max (first Gen MBP’s were 2Gig, the 3rd Gen were 4Gig) on its motherboard. It shipped with just a single 1GB chip, I gradually upgraded with mismatched RAM, finally upgraded to 3Gig a while ago and bought matching speed and spec Crucial (Samsung) RAM, just 1x2Gig and 1x1Gig stick as that’s the max it can take.
Never. I used to run Repair Permissions in the OS X 10.2 days, but since 10.4, I don’t think I’ve run it once. My 2year old Macbook is as fast as ever.
Only been on a Mac since about 10.4.6, so no experience of what it used to be like. It was just whilst I was using the disc utility tool to find out about a partition, I clicked verify disk and it said I needed to reboot from the OS disc and run disc utility to repair the disc that way…
Suggest to those of you that haven’t done it, open disc utility and verify the disc… It may be ok, but if like mine it will tell you to reboot from the OS disc.
Anyway, happy Mac owner again now after wondering what the hell had happened to my machine!