

However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in version 10.8.3, only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported. Boot Camp 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard version 10.6.6 up to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported Windows XP and Windows Vista. Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the utility was first introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since.

Replacing the hard drive is fairly simple to do - and you could also consider replacing the hard drive with an SSD.6.1.19 (29 August 2022 6 months ago ( 29 August 2022))

Very slow operation, especially on a newly installed (and restarted) system, can often indicate serious problems with the hard drive. Were you already having problems BEFORE you reinstalled OS X? That upgrade to an SSD would make an enjoyable difference in performance, particularly in boot time and launching your apps (much faster than your hard drive could ever possibly work) Replacing the hard drive is fairly simple to do - and you could also consider replacing the hard drive with an SSD.

If there are any errors, run Repair Disk again, until no errors are found - or the same error continues to be reported. Run Repair Disk (not Repair Disk Permissions), which should take, at the most, a couple of minutes to complete. That should improve after two or three restarts, and I would expect your MacBook to boot and be ready to use, usually within about 30-40 seconds total.Īfter booting, and waiting for that initial few minutes, does your MacBook continue to have very slow operation, or even extended pauses - when you see the spinning wheel?īoot to the installer, then choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. The FIRST boot after reinstalling OS X can take an abnormally long time, perhaps several minutes.
