MacBook Pro, including Clock, slow after update

The consensus has been that this is related to the security update that came down in the past week along with the Airport, Safari, and Camera update.

for what it's worth.. I just ran the security update on my macbook pro that is still running OS 10.4.11
and am having similar issues to what's been described on this thread...

my macbook pro always runs hot... one of the first ones when they released in 2006. I'm taking it into apple to have them deal with it, tired of the burning sensation on my legs. it's a laptop after all, not a desktop. I recently had an imac g5, also about 2 years old that fried due to overheating. perhaps there is something to the products they put out on the market in 2005 and 2006...

By any chance, have you a third-party XviD QuickTime Component installed?

The following sequence worked for me:

1. Open Console.App (Applications / Utilities / Console.app)

2. Select "Console Messages" at the left-hand side

I found the following messages repeated over and over for each application:

2008-03-27 12:39:55 Console[493] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/QuickTime/AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component/Contents/MacOS/AviImporter: mach-o, but wrong architecture

If you do not get messages like this, you've some other problem, and I cannot help you.

3. Go to Folder /Library/QuickTime (Finder: shift-command-G or Go > Go To Folder...)
4. drag the offending .component file to the trash, and empty trash.

5. Quit Console.app
6. Relaunch it, and look for new errors from QT.

7. Do you still get errors from QuickTime about components being the wrong architecture ? If so, return to step 3.

8. Repeat until you get no more complaints from QuickTime.

9. Reboot.

I don't have any third-party XviD QT components.

Look in the logs that Console.app shows you. See if there are any recurring error messages.
I would get seven of those messages in a row every time I opened an application. Since I removed the offending components, the system is back up to speed.

Other things I did that may have a bearing on the problem:

1. In Disk Utility, I did a "Fix Permissions" on my boot volume.
2. After removing the .component folders, I restarted the system.

(Perhaps doing Fix Permissions and Restart was the real fix)

I've run repair permissions so many times that I can attest to the fact that it is NOT a fix to this problem. While Repair permissions is running, everything seems to work fine. But once it is done, everything returns to its slow sluggish nature.

Personally, I am almost ready to downgrade back to 10.5 and avoid the security patch that seems to have been the culprit in this whole mess. I was hoping that a simpler solution would have been posted by now.

Amazing how many people have this problem and Apple is yet to address this issues, even with people going as far as taking the MBP to the Genius bar who also seem to be clueless about this recent abnormal phenomenon.

Message was edited by: Hassen Fawaz

Yes. Anything that pounds the filesystem will alleviate the problem (strangely enough).

If I went to terminal and typed *find /* -- i.e., list every file on disk -- things speed up while the disk is going. But once the operation stopped, my system slowed down again.

I have posted the steps above that fixed this problem for me. The only help I can offer apart from that is to have a look at the Console logs. They may suggest where the problem is arising. For me, removing an incompatible QT component I'd downloaded a long time ago fixed things.

Add a Macbook to the list of innocent victims...
From the moment I installed the latest security update (2008-002), together with
the Safari update, I've been having problems with my mac. Everything is slow: it takes
an eternity to boot, graphics are slow (dock, windows opening and closing, cursor, etc),
computer freezes during shutdown or restart so I have to force it to close, if it goes to sleep
it doesn't wake up after. The funny thing is that the computer seems to behave normally
for small periods of time...

The CPU and RAM usage seem normal at first glance. I zapped my PRAM, repaired permissions,
checked the hardware using the install disk. All this without any improvement.

Why isn't there a way to remove the latest update?!

The way I removed it was re-installing Leopard and then not accepting any updates from that update package.

My computer is running fine (better than before the update, actually) now.

Kinda reminds me of the old Windows days...

Archive and Install fixed this issue for me. And of course I had to re-add printers, re-install Cisco VPN, Parallels, etc. Pretty much a whole wasted day. Way too Windows. I am avoiding all the updates until I read somewhere that they fix this mess.

I finally gave up waiting for a correction/solution to come down the pipeline and went ahead and reloaded Leopard, re-updated using the 10.5.2 package, and am up and running normally, sans the slowdown. Thanks for nothing Apple.

You even reinstalled the Security Update and have had no ill effects?

No, I didn't. I am staying away from the latest security updates which was the culprit in the first place. I'll probably stay away from the Safari update too since it could have something to do with this as well. I don't use Safari and couldn't care less if it was updated.

Add another dissatisfied Apple customer to this thread! I have a first generation Intel MacBook that has been rendered nearly useless by the 10.5.? update(s). Looks like folks are having good luck with Ubuntu on MacBooks...

Regards,
Rich

I had the same go slow problem since the latest update, with no help from Apple to be seen, i just reinstalled leopard and the problem seems to have gone for now!! I will not touch an update again until im sure its bomb proof

I am a recent covert to mac and this is sooo windows that I do hope its a once off