[SOLVED] Macbook slow in an odd way. Experts needed

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Broelski

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Hi, interesting issue happening to my macbook (2015 running os x 10.12 with bootcamp enabled)

So basically, the device had no issues whatsoever before today. I went on vacation for 2 weeks, came back and it started behaving very odd. Issues faced:

1. Incredibly slow boot time considering I have an SSD. Normal boot time is a few seconds, now its roughly 2 minutes.

2. When the mac does start, it is behaves in a weird manner. The inputs are suffering from a huge lag. For example moving the mouse takes 20 seconds and so does moving the arrow keys or the touchpad. Commands take that much time as well.

3. Macbook does not respond to options+r recovery mode (except for the situation listed below)

Naturally I assumed that the SSD is dying, but now I'm not so sure. I have done the following and got mixed results:

1. I rebooted the PRAM. When I do that, the laptop works PERFECTLY with no lag at all until I restart it again. Also, options+r recovery works only for this particular restart. This works every time i reset the PRAM.

2. I rebooted the SMC, no effect.

3. Using (1) I ran the recovery partion disk utility first aid. It showed that the device works perfectly fine

4. Using (1) I ran single user mode and ran a check /sbin/fsck -fy command scan. It showed that the volume appears to be OK.

5. Just as a precaution against overheating as the laptop was fairly hot, I am using a coolermaster to cool it down.

Seeing that it works fine every time the PRAM is reset tells me that the SSD might not be the issue. Unfortunately Apple is not much help as support is not offered since my PC is one year and a half old so I am hoping you good folk could help me solve my problem.

Thanks
 
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Problem solved. Remembered that I only recently updated my OS and thats what caused this headache (and the 3 hours of my day). Simply updating the OS fixed the issue entirely,
Problem solved. Remembered that I only recently updated my OS and thats what caused this headache (and the 3 hours of my day). Simply updating the OS fixed the issue entirely,
 
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