Why is Lion so slow?

How ignorant and blinded you are. Comparing the problem to that of a model T ford to unleaded petrol!!? My mac is 5 years old FYI. Not 15. It runs lion ok. Yet again we have someone jump on a discussion assuming this and that. I bet you still say there was no antennae issue on the ip4. Even though it was proved there was and Apple tried their hardest to cover it up. Regardless ML was only released so quickly because lion was such a disaster, not that Apple would admit it of course. Look arou d this discussion and you will see that users who had a nightmare with Lion are now running healthy non buggy macs on ML. Amazing huh? Unlike you I joined this discussion to help a lot of other users try and find a solution. Now I suggest you run along and go by your next fandagngled iMac or rMBP as money doesn't seem to an issue in petermacworld instead of trolling through this discussion telling everyone there isn't an issue.

Cpl BadBoy wrote:

Look arou d this discussion and you will see that users who had a nightmare with Lion are now running healthy non buggy macs on ML. Amazing huh?

Not really. It's a TROUBLESHOOTING forum. What do you expect here? Roses and smiles???? 5 to 6 years is old, and will not run the latest software. Do your homework before whinging.

Unlike you I joined this discussion to help a lot of other users try and find a solution

And a marvellous and effective job you are doing as well 😉

Cheer up

Pete

ML is buggy too! Fresh intall yesterday an the two fingers scroll wont work properly on my MBP 17. Back again to Lion and now Lion wont update system from Software Update. Have to do it manually and it takes 4 hours to download 2GB. Any reason? Apple servers are working fine? We miss you Steve Jobs!!!😉

Download speed depends on your server. Call them.

Cheers

Pete

Have 180 KB/s on torrents download, and 152 KB/s on apple update. Software Update fails. Download 2GB on 10min max from others servers. Software Update have never been so slow here. Thanks for the help.😐

Are you running any anti-virus? MacKeeper? Little Snitch? Third party firewalls etc.?

Pete

None of them. Just upgrading to begin install the rest. Tow days trying to update. Thanks.

I was going to ask if anyone had tried Mountain Lion yet. I heard they cut down a lot of code and that it runs faster. I've noticed on Lion that if I repair permissions every few weeks, it keeps things running fairly fast on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Is Mountain Lion any better?

Omek wrote:

I was going to ask if anyone had tried Mountain Lion yet. I heard they cut down a lot of code and that it runs faster. I've noticed on Lion that if I repair permissions every few weeks, it keeps things running fairly fast on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Is Mountain Lion any better?

I find it much more stable. IMHO of course.🙂

Pete

Omek,

Its your 2011 MBP I'm afraid! You'll have to buy a 2012 one. Just like petermacs daddy has done for him probably! For your install of ML I would repair all permissions etc. as noted by me however, even the fresh install of Lion is scrappy (hence the issue in my opinion) running TechtToolPro6.

As for edgarinsky, well I'm afraid that it's your ISP my sonny. Unfortunately the discussion has sort of induced a fanboy in the shape of the young man petermac here. He won't hear nothing of the sorts that your problem stems from you or ISP and not his beloved Apple servers. You see everything just works in petermacworld!!

In reality apples servers are known for slow downloads on the software that they sorta shove to the back and that would be Lion. You see Lion is something that Apple would have you NOT download. Go ahead and download ML again and you'll see how quick it comes down the pipe!! If your using Google Chrome then that could be the issue. As fast and fluid as chrome is I've noticed that on certain downloads it can be quite slow. Switching to Safari or Firefox usually results in faster downloads. So you could try that.

As for you petermac. stop whinging eh? Listen, son. It was Apple that said Lion was compatible with my hardware so I suggest you go and do your homework before being a smart arse. Remember it's still only OSX we are dealing with here. Visually it ain't that different from 10.6 or 10.7. Absolute no reason why 10.8 wouldn't run on my hardware. If it were a new OS

11 then that's a different story ain't it. Secondly, my contributions on this discussions have helped a few users which is more than I,can say for you who merely blames firewalls, anti virus or little snitch & old 2011 hardware! Here Endith the conversation.

Cpl BadBoy wrote:

Omek,

Its your 2011 MBP I'm afraid! You'll have to buy a 2012 one. Just like petermacs daddy has done for him probably! For your install of ML I would repair all permissions etc. as noted by me however, even the fresh install of Lion is scrappy (hence the issue in my opinion) running TechtToolPro6.

As for edgarinsky, well I'm afraid that it's your ISP my sonny. Unfortunately the discussion has sort of induced a fanboy in the shape of the young man petermac here. He won't hear nothing of the sorts that your problem stems from you or ISP and not his beloved Apple servers. You see everything just works in petermacworld!!

In reality apples servers are known for slow downloads on the software that they sorta shove to the back and that would be Lion. You see Lion is something that Apple would have you NOT download. Go ahead and download ML again and you'll see how quick it comes down the pipe!! If your using Google Chrome then that could be the issue. As fast and fluid as chrome is I've noticed that on certain downloads it can be quite slow. Switching to Safari or Firefox usually results in faster downloads. So you could try that.

As for you petermac. stop whinging eh? Listen, son. It was Apple that said Lion was compatible with my hardware so I suggest you go and do your homework before being a smart arse. Remember it's still only OSX we are dealing with here. Visually it ain't that different from 10.6 or 10.7. Absolute no reason why 10.8 wouldn't run on my hardware. If it were a new OS

11 then that's a different story ain't it. Secondly, my contributions on this discussions have helped a few users which is more than I,can say for you who merely blames firewalls, anti virus or little snitch & old 2011 hardware! Here Endith the conversation.

Thanks for the compliment. Please post linksto back up your claims.

Cheers

Pete

Totally agree with Cpl BadBoy! It make me think the same when i spend two days trying to update Lion, when ML did on 20min. I try with all of them, Safari, Firefox and Chorme with the same download speed. Finally i got Lion updated. Thanks

Cpl BadBoy wrote:

Omek,

Its your 2011 MBP I'm afraid! You'll have to buy a 2012 one. Just like petermacs daddy has done for him probably! For your install of ML I would repair all permissions etc. as noted by me however, even the fresh install of Lion is scrappy (hence the issue in my opinion) running TechtToolPro6.

As for edgarinsky, well I'm afraid that it's your ISP my sonny. Unfortunately the discussion has sort of induced a fanboy in the shape of the young man petermac here. He won't hear nothing of the sorts that your problem stems from you or ISP and not his beloved Apple servers. You see everything just works in petermacworld!!

In reality apples servers are known for slow downloads on the software that they sorta shove to the back and that would be Lion. You see Lion is something that Apple would have you NOT download. Go ahead and download ML again and you'll see how quick it comes down the pipe!! If your using Google Chrome then that could be the issue. As fast and fluid as chrome is I've noticed that on certain downloads it can be quite slow. Switching to Safari or Firefox usually results in faster downloads. So you could try that.

As for you petermac. stop whinging eh? Listen, son. It was Apple that said Lion was compatible with my hardware so I suggest you go and do your homework before being a smart arse. Remember it's still only OSX we are dealing with here. Visually it ain't that different from 10.6 or 10.7. Absolute no reason why 10.8 wouldn't run on my hardware. If it were a new OS

11 then that's a different story ain't it. Secondly, my contributions on this discussions have helped a few users which is more than I,can say for you who merely blames firewalls, anti virus or little snitch & old 2011 hardware! Here Endith the conversation.

Cpl BadBoy wrote:

It was Apple that said Lion was compatible with my hardware so I suggest you go and do your homework before being a smart arse. Remember it's still only OSX we are dealing with here. Visually it ain't that different from 10.6 or 10.7. Absolute no reason why 10.8 wouldn't run on my hardware. If it were a new OS

11 then that's a different story ain't it.

You are one who needs to do research. It is a totally diffent architecture. They released Windows 8 for people like you. And FYI I am 54 but, wow, thanks again for the 'young' references. Shows just how you believe all your assumptions to be correct. Being deluded can often cause people to be unable to use a computer properly.

Oh, and watch the language, it's against the TOU.

Cheerio

Pete

@edgarinsky.

No problem! Glad that my observation is correct. No need for links. I hope you get sorted and your mac running the way it should. Day 2 for me after using TT6 and the mac is still running pretty good, no hangups or beachballing. No doubt that Apple dropped the (beach)ball with Lion. Apple knew this and rushed to release ML. It should have in fact been a free Lion update but people thought they where getting a good deal at under 20$ or whatever it is and so Apple profited from its mistakes, much like the iP4. If Lion was so great then there wouldnt be anybody on these boards.

I'll keep the board updated on the progress. Im gonna have to go for the moment as there appears to be someone chirp, chirp, chirping in my reply post ear, blabbering on about this and that giving it the high & mighty act!!! Im sure I ended that conversation yet some people just cant take a hint.

Regards

Stu

Cpl BadBoy wrote:

@edgarinsky.

No problem! Glad that my observation is correct. No need for links. I hope you get sorted and your mac running the way it should. Day 2 for me after using TT6 and the mac is still running pretty good, no hangups or beachballing. No doubt that Apple dropped the (beach)ball with Lion. Apple knew this and rushed to release ML. It should have in fact been a free Lion update but people thought they where getting a good deal at under 20$ or whatever it is and so Apple profited from its mistakes, much like the iP4. If Lion was so great then there wouldnt be anybody on these boards.

I'll keep the board updated on the progress. Im gonna have to go for the moment as there appears to be someone chirp, chirp, chirping in my reply post ear, blabbering on about this and that giving it the high & mighty act!!! Im sure I ended that conversation yet some people just cant take a hint.

Regards

Stu

Is there any way you can keep your post on point, all these personal rants distract from the usefulness of your posts and frankly, are rather infantile.