brcd Posted February 27, 2019 ID:1300868 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I have a full understanding what MB scans so quickly and thanks to all who took the time to explain it to me. Next question: My MAC starts up slower since I installed MB and accepting the trial Premium upgrade. The little spinning ball is present for a full minute to a minute and a half. It is an older MAC, early2009 running El Capitan 10.11.6. Is this normal? Is MB scanning my system upon startup? Other than that, every thing is running very nicely. Thanks in advance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvarnell Posted February 27, 2019 ID:1300880 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I don't have a Mac that old to check, so can't check for myself, but if you turn the Real-Time Protection features off, is startup significantly faster? As far as scans go, there shouldn’t be any new files that would require scanning. There would be a slight increase for premium features to launch and perhaps download any new Protection Updates, but that shouldn't take too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brcd Posted February 27, 2019 Author ID:1300882 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Thanks. I will give a restart a try with real time off. May be a day or so before I get back with the results. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff treed Posted February 27, 2019 Staff ID:1300989 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I can confirm that's not normal behavior. I can't say what's causing it without more information. Perhaps set Activity Monitor as a login item (in System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items) so it opens automatically at startup. If it's able to update and show process info while the beach ball is spinning, what processes are using the CPU significantly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brcd Posted February 28, 2019 Author ID:1301086 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Thanks all. I tried what you folks suggested. No use. Called Apple support and did a screen share. Real Time protection was turned off and it was still eating CPU. It took a while to uninstall and for some reason RT protection was still embedded. That took some doing. The consensus is a bad install with a 10 year old MAC and I experienced the problem. MB has bee reinstalled and all is well. Thanks. I have been advised that I will need or should consider a new MAC within the next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff treed Posted February 28, 2019 Staff ID:1301134 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Yeah, old Macs can still be usable, but less and less so the more modern software you run on them. I've got an old 2010 MacBook Pro that is still functional, and I do use it for some things, but it's slow. You'll really notice a difference if you upgrade to modern hardware... it's like night and day. In any case, I'm glad that you got it figured out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brcd Posted March 11, 2019 Author ID:1303188 Share Posted March 11, 2019 On 2/28/2019 at 5:41 AM, treed said: Yeah, old Macs can still be usable, but less and less so the more modern software you run on them. I've got an old 2010 MacBook Pro that is still functional, and I do use it for some things, but it's slow. You'll really notice a difference if you upgrade to modern hardware... it's like night and day. In any case, I'm glad that you got it figured out. Starting to save for a new iMac. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq_Starwind Posted March 12, 2019 ID:1303325 Share Posted March 12, 2019 If you want to save some money, I'd suggest building a Hackintosh. There are some video guides out there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brcd Posted March 12, 2019 Author ID:1303329 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Definitely not in my DNA! But thanks anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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