Laggy i5 2011 MBP

i'm on second 13" mbp i5 2011. first 1 mistakenly feared had heating issues. upon returning within 14-day window, discovered first not such anomaly, replacement became toasty under similar load. while, have suspected replacement not snappy first one. may sound nitpicking, applications take jump or 2 more open , stacks don't emerge dock aplomb. currently, have 172 mb psd file open minimized , whole system sluggish , not quite responsive. lags when switching 1 tab on firefox next. dictionary app pops open takes few hops , itunes tracks skip @ times. normal? sound issue sorted out ssd?

 

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i'm on second 13" mbp i5 2011. first 1 mistakenly feared had heating issues. upon returning within 14-day window, discovered first not such anomaly, replacement became toasty under similar load. while, have suspected replacement not snappy first one. may sound nitpicking, applications take jump or 2 more open , stacks don't emerge dock aplomb. currently, have 172 mb psd file open minimized , whole system sluggish , not quite responsive. lags when switching 1 tab on firefox next. dictionary app pops open takes few hops , itunes tracks skip @ times. normal? sound issue sorted out ssd?

click expand...

could number of things. lack of ram, spotlight indexing drive, rogue process eating away ressources, etc.

there wasn't heating problem first mbp, run hot , designed so, if it's not shutting down due heat, you're go.

open activity monitor, display processes , sort processor usage. show pie graph of memory page ins , outs, we'll go there.

 

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