OS X Lion is incredibly slow (even after index)

Lion IS supported on a mid-2008 MacBook to be clear. You need (at least) an Intel core 2 duo chip and 2 Gb RAM. It would definitely be beneficial to have MORE than 2 Gb of RAM though, Lion will use a lot of that just running the OS.

Thitanat wrote:

You need to upgread Mac hard drive. Actually os x lion is not support for MacBook mid 2008.

That is incorrect.

Yes that is incorrect. I have an MBPro with I7 2.66 8GB Mem and 512GB SSD, bought it end 2010.

Now, since recent:

Open Mail: Rainbow wheel and like locked for 15 seconds spinning. (annoying)

Some apps as well are more slow then before. (rainbow wheel)

What is going on? I ran verify disk repair disk repair permissions, even resetting P and V Ram.

And in recovery mode, reinstalled lion. Still same. Lion has very nice features but it's broken. (Starts having issues like a regular windows machine, which is horrific)

Am I too paranoid to ask if MSFT pays coders on the side to deliberately screw up the OS?

Starts to look like it. I've become a Mac Fanatic since 2006 and this is really not normal Apple behaviour.

Finally progress and showing signs of life again!

1) removed and reinstalled FireFox (thank you for that suggestion)

2) Purchased MacKeeper and toasted everything it suggested

3) Purchased 16GB of RAM (quadrupled it)

I am back to almost pre-lion speed

I will withhold full judgement. I have been here before and 3 days later i was crawling again but i am hopefully optimistic. Maybe i wont have to make my PC my graphics computer after all 8)))

From everything I know, read and believe, MacKeeper is a scam at best.

Rubish.

dunno, i was desperate and probably wasted money... guess i should have asked in here first... i am still learning my way around the mac and it does a good job of cleaning all the various cache. would i purchase it again, probably not just listing everything i did.

i did see an increase in speed post FF reinstall but still got the twirling rainbow ring of death on occasion.

RAM may be the real winner. I am making the assumption Lion is much more of a hog than the old system. At the end of the day i have made it 24 hours without wanting to stick my fist through it. that alone make me smile 8)

Hi APierce24, thank you for the help. I tried Apples Command & R key method, but it did not work. Called support and she said to try your suggestion. As yo said LION is now great!

Since I installed Lion and the upgrade last week my machine is at a crawl. Terrible perfomance.

I have checked the hard dive, only have Skype loading at startup and it is very slow.

Any suggestions? Almost unsuable at this point.

j

Did you do a clean install or an upgrade? I suspect an upgrade since that's what happened to my machine. Once I did a clean install, everything started working as it should.

Check out APierce24 suggestion on page 1.

R

So after reading through this message thread, I just wanted to share my experience. I know that the last message posted here was a few days ago but it looks like this message thread was started in July 2011.

Anyways, I have a Macbook Pro early-2011 with 8GB DDR3 RAM and almost all upgrades available. It's a pretty snappy system. I'm a Web Developer and Programmer, so I'm on my computer just about all day and non-stop for that matter. A few days ago I noticed that when I did a reboot, it would take 4 to 8 minutes (timed) to boot from shutdown to the login screen then an additional 3-5 minutes after logging in to be able to do anything.

I've always been a Linux fan and have used all 3 major systems through-out my career (Mac OSX, Windows and Linux) so I started with what I was familiar with. (These are the steps that I did to speed up my Macbook Pro without having to re-install or do anything drastic).

• Shutdown Computer
• Hold Command+R and press the Power Button
• Once booted into Lion Recovery, select 'Disk Utility' and select 'Continue'
• I then clicked 'Repair Disk'
• Once complete, click 'Repair Permissions' (All in all, depending on your Harddrive Size and Speed this process can take 10 minutes to 50 minutes-- just depends on size/speed and how damaged the permissions and disk are).
• Reboot computer
• Now, I'm not a huge fan on these Applications but load either CleanMyMac, CleanGeniusPro, iKeeper or iBoostUp and run their utilies to clean your System Cache, Uninstall Applications that you do not use, Uninstall all unused Widgets, System Preferences and Plugins.
• After any of those Applications are finished running, you can restart your computer

So basically, as mentioned in the comments of this message thread, run Repair Disk and Repair Permissions followed by Cleaning Up your system. If your still having issues, I would recommend following up with Apple or if your "Techy Savvy" then you can look at the Logs and see what's slowing down your system. I can say that I've seen specific Apps that work with the System Kernel bog down a computer. There are many variables to why your computer may be as slow as it is. As fresh install tends to work but should be your last resort and if your still having issues with sluggish systems after a fresh install then it probably (might be) your hardware.

Hope that summary helps someone.

i tried EVERYTHING and repairing disk permissions only worked temporarily, i think FireFox (i uninstalled and reinstalled) was part of the issue but upgrading to 16 gig of ram from the 4 gig it came with made a huge difference. Lion must be a real hog and i honestly cant say i like it better not can i say it is faster than it was before (possibly slower) even by quadrupling the RAM???

Lion does take up a little more memory than Snow Leopard did but not enough to where upgrading to 16GB RAM is neccessary. The technology behind OSX seems to be slowly moving towards how Ubuntu did Unity, with the goal of being able to run on Tablets and low resource Devices. I would be curious to see your log files to see what is acutally going on behind the scenes. If you can goto your System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Startup Items and remove startup Applications that you don't need or use and then if you can post your All Messages (via Console.app, then Command+Shift+S. You can post it on Pastebin and post the link here).

Maybe we can figure out what is actually going on behind the scenes and troubleshoot your system that way. I've found that running just ruitine maintaince works and if that does not work then it's an issue with a particular application and if that is not the issue then it's hardware.

sorry, no idea what Console.app Remeber you are talking to a PC guy.