2011 macbook pro slow and freezes alot

having the same issue with my new 15inch macbook pro.

Has anybody been able to resolve the problem yet?

I have a MBP 17inch i bought 2-3 months ago. It's now incredibly slow with Browser open. If you don't touch the broswer be it Safari or Firefox it works fine, but once you do the pointer keeps spinning....it's SUPER annoying! I suspect its the harddisk issue because the disk utility graph seems peaks a lot when it freezes... but why only for browsers?

Same problem here on a 15 inch MBP I just bought last week. As soon as I have several programs running, there is a significant slowdown. As soon as it is re-booted it is lightning fast again. Since the MBP has fast i7 and graphics processors I am assuming that this is largely due to the slow 5400 rpm disk drive. Why saddle this with such a slow drive?

Same problem here. Back in March, I got the 15" 2 GHz Intel Core i7. Off the bat it was some what slow. I figured it was due to the migration of my old files. So, I backed everything up, wipe the Mac clean and started fresh. After a few weeks the MBP continued to slow down. Now anytime I run anything, I get the beach ball. At times, Safari and Firefox are unusable. I'll sit there for 3-4 minutes for the computer to react while browsing the web. My wife's 2004 iBook is faster. I'm thinking of swapping out the hard drive. Anyone out there have another solution?

Call customer service from Apple. We did the same and it never got slower again. They will tell you step by step process how to make it faster.

i called apple care a while ago and they took me through some steps to delete some cache before I had the option of reinstalling the os (which I did, you don't have reinstall your files if anybody is wondering). much better now though aperture is stil super slow compared to what it was on my iMac but I think this may be a different issue.

So after realising my MBP17 running slow. It took 10min to scan disk before booting the OS everytime I start up the computer. I thouht I would just do a Harddrive verification. It turns out there's an alert showing there in fact was some problems. Called Apple. I was told to do a clean installation of OS. So I backed up all data, recovery from Time Machine, scanned harddrive...no issue at all.

Yet I still find MBP is significantly slower under LION compared to Snow Lepard. With SL. With faster CPU, twice as much RAM I installed, better graphic card....I can't think of any other reason than the Lion OS being slow. It feels like Vista. : (

I had the same problem. I have a late 2010 MacBook Pro i7, 2.66GHz, 8GB RAM so it's not hardware slowing it down.

I did some extensive tests via trial and error and discovered that if I turn-off all my internet on the MBP it doesn't have the freezes and spinning beachball so that narrowed it down to some kind of problem with the MBP constantly communicating with the Internet.

Then I found my solution.

Use OpenDNS in the Network Settings. I did this 20 minutes ago and it's been smooth sailing so far. I even set the Router to OpenDNS and everything is faster.

Find instructions here: http://www.opendns.com/

Or you can use Google's Public DNS: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

I haven't tried Google's DNS system yet.

I had the same issue a lot of freezing and kinda slow, thenI did a hardware test from the snow leopard DVD , and I found a hardware error, so I sent my macbook pro (early 2011) to apple and they replaced the motherboard to fix that error. Now the computer is really fast as I expected from i7 processor.

Okay, although OpenDNS made the web much faster, like 200-300% faster it still did not solve the freezes and beach-balling on my MBP.

So I went yet another step, I uninstalled Adobe Flash. Been going all morning and although I had a few rainbow beachballs, mostly due to disk access I believe, it's nothing like before and no intermitant freezes. Here's the uninstaller: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/909/cpsid_90906.html

Obviously at this point in time you can't really go without Flash on the web since so many sites still use it.

I'm going to run a day without it to confirm if Adobe Flash in indeed the problem then reinstall the latest version (which I had installed before) to see if the uninstall maybe cleaned-out some cobwebs.

my macbook pro 2011 olso slow... so slow...

i'm sorry that i sell my 2010 i3 imac and buy this macbook pro i7 2011

it's much much slower

i hope apple realse some update to fix this prob..

the UI is running really slow and with alot of littel freezing..

i really don't like this mac.. any one know if it's a hardwear issue or osx lion issue?

Update on mine: It was again working sluggish (and really sluggish I mean). Just yesterday my macbook pro died. Someone said it could be internally overheating issue but it was not overheating at all. I did update the software the day before. It could be related to the increasing busy icon that was appearing and now it will not turn on. Macbook Pro 13" 2011, Bought 4 months ago. I also do wish, I didn't sell my 2010 macbook pro, this new one does have a better camera though which I like (and that's why I upgraded).

This is definitely an Adobe Flash issue. After uninstalling Flash things are much smoother running without all freezes and rainbow beachballs.

It's been covered in this blog post: http://www.nanofunk.net/mac-osx-lion-10-7-system-freezes-kernel-iosurface-buffer -allocation-size-is-zero-console-message/

Good News! I seem to have fixed the problem on my MacBook Pro. I ran my MBP for two days without Flash and that helped but I couldn't keep going without it so I dug deeper since I was having even worse problems.

The trick is to reset the System Management Controller (SMC). Once I did this I Repaired Permissions, yet again, and was able to reinstall Adobe Flash 11. So far so good. No spinning beachball, except when there's a heavy load on USB drives, no freezes.

Go to this page to see how to reset your SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Okay, the reset SMC seemed to work a little bit but then the MBP went into a huge downward spiral of instability.

I moved all of my files off onto an external Firewire drive and I wiped my internal hard drive. Erased the whole thing and did a clean install of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 via a bootable USB keychain drive See http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/lion-clean-install-guide/ for information on how to make a bootable DVD or USB keychain drive with your purchased Lion download.

Then I took the tedious process of reinstalling all of my apps. One mistake I made was I forgot to deactivate my Adobe products before erasing the drive which means I may have trouble re-activating them again if I've gone over the limit of installs. Adobe is a real pain to customers with their system.

The computer is running well now, indexing of hard drive is going well via Spotlight. No more random crashes. When I do a Repair Permissions the resulting log is down to one line, yep. Probably after years of upgrading though the OS X versions have taken its toll of junk in the System.

Clean install is the way to go. Very long, very tedious, takes at lest a whole day from your workflow but worth it.