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I installed Lion on a relatively new MacBook Pro (released early 2011) with an i7 dual-core processor. It is painfully slow, much slower than Snow Leopard was. Even things like surfing the internet (using Firefox) is very slow, and I see the little rainbow circular icon frequently.
Any ideas?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
How long since you installed? sometimes spotlight will take a long time to index your drives and slow your computer down a LOT. Are you backing up with Time Machine? That can also slow down the computer until the backup i done.
Think you'll find going through my various points throughout this topic that it was on point and still is.
You just couldnt help yourself but get in on the action and take the moral high ground could ya! Now if you offer no advice to this topic may I suggest you tak your own advice 🙂 That is all. Here endith the conversation between me and you.
Cpl BadBoy wrote:
Think you'll find going through my various points throughout this topic that it was on point and still is.
You just couldnt help yourself but get in on the action and take the moral high ground could ya! Now if you offer no advice to this topic may I suggest you tak your own advice 🙂 That is all. Here endith the conversation between me and you.
Thanks for illustrating my point so neatly.
I have a mid 2010 mpb 15", osx lion, and I got tired of the slow boot time.
Can someone sum up the solutions for me? 21 pages of disperse information is hard to track!
Mountain Lion
Are you serious? Mountain Lion is the only solution for slow boots?
What about the rest, is mountain up to or better than lion?
timelover wrote:
Are you serious? Mountain Lion is the only solution for slow boots?
What about the rest, is mountain up to or better than lion?
Yes
Pete
How about incompatibilities? I heard mountain lion had several. Is that true or it's all fixed by now?
timelover wrote:
How about incompatibilities? I heard mountain lion had several. Is that true or it's all fixed by now?
Only with old PPC programs, same as Lion.
Pete
So besides clean installing mtn lion, how much would an SSD improve boot time and overall experience?
SSD should boot in 15-25 seconds, everything else is faster as well.
After a long long time with no beachball it startet over last week... Same problem, spinning for 20-30 seconds. Done all the stuff I know of to make it stop. Last time it went away after an update to ML 10.8.2 I think. I run 10.8.3 now and had that version since it came out, and with no problems until a week ago.
Stuck and sad...
You have updated the iOS too far. The guys in the Genius Bar took my 17" back to an earlier version Nd now it runs like a Mac Pro.
iOS cannot run on a Mac, only on iPads and iPhones. Also third three has been dormant for almost a year.
Pete
Why is Lion so slow?
