Macbook Pro Problem - help needed

Posted by: Richard Dane on 30 January 2018

I've just got back from Dusseldorf where we were showing the Naim for Princess Yachts system (brilliant by the way!). But I now find that my Macbook Pro has a problem. It starts to boot, and I see the status bar start to fill up, then slow, then take ages to reach the end but that's as far as it goes. I can get into the recovery section. I've run a repair utility. I've also done a hardware scan (short and long) and no issues found. I've reset PRAM. However, still no dice and I get the same if I try to enter safe mode. I did an update to High Sierra a few weeks ago and all I can think of is that something there has corrupted. What to do? I'm thinking of trying to get hold of a USB stick with a bootable OSX onboard. But in the meantime can any of you Mac experts help?

Posted on: 01 May 2018 by Adam Zielinski

There is one more alternative, which I use on my Macs.

As part of our business MS Office package, our IT department could generate personal use MS Office licences. All I had to pay was around EUR 10 or 20 to activate it, via a link supplied.

Posted on: 01 May 2018 by Willy

What Vintage axeman said, but I purchased on Amazon and for a pc, Office 2016 for around £10. Think the seller was Home Bargains. Iirc the were Mac options available. Advantage of using Amazon is if it goes pear shaped it's easy to get a refund. Got a couple of machines running this now without issue.

Willy.

Posted on: 04 May 2018 by Richard Dane

Thanks all. I decided to move on to Office 2016 and it's now installed and working well.

As for the performance of my MacBook Pro after an internal clean and the installation of the Crucial Ram and SSD upgrade, it's quite remarkable. It's totally rejuvenated - like I've just got myself a new and super-fast laptop. Boot up now just takes a matter of around 10 seconds and even big apps load almost instantaneously. It's so good, I'm wondering why I didn't do it sooner.