Tips to Speed Up Lion

Nice post. Removing SIMBL did the trick for me. My slow downs have been driving me nuts. Thanks.

Thanks for the tips now my lion runs much faster

I will also check these tips and will see any difference because after installing Lion my Mac takes a lot of time on startup...

I wrote the Mac OS X speed FAQ*:

http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html

and a tip page* for upgrading to Lion on http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html#LION

Basically, anything not known to be Lion compatible should be checked first. And backup your data at least twice before upgrading. If unsure, ask on the board.

Hi A,

very interesting stuff. Obviously Adam read some of it. Keep up the good work, I will check in your pages regularly.

Lex

Adam, normally SIMBL is not there, SIMBL is needed for some extensions/addons you installed.

I tried a few things that I read on some other posts. I use a Mac Book Pro 17 mid 2010 and my wife uses a Mac Book Pro 13 mid 2010. The first thing I tried, that I saw on another post, was to set the energy saver for computer sleep to never and let the computers spotlight index everything that Lion installed. That improved the MBP 13 but the MBP 17 was still struggling, especially with Mail, Safari, and Excel recent files. There were lengthy spinning beach balls. After a lot of trial and error and more reading of posts, I upgraded Dropbox to the version found on the Dropbox forums, and upgraded the version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus. (Kaspersky is not installed on the MBP 13) These steps brought drastic improvements to the MBP 17. There were a couple of small hang ups so my next step was to clone the hard drive, erase the hard drive, and restore back onto the hard drive of the MBP 17. Since completing that, I have not experienced any of the previous issues.

Hello James (Kerkvliet is a very dutch name!),

You did very well! Personally I am opposed to antivirus apps. They are not necessary and most of the time they give more problems than advantages. Especially in 10.6.8 and Lion the OS is very up to date to "handle" virus/malware.

Read all the posts here.

wish you happy computing

Lex

Thanks Lex,

Yes - definitely is Dutch. Thanks for the insight on Kaspersky (and other brands). I often wondered if the purchase was necessary.

Jim K

Thanks for the tips " a brody" I was checking your 10.7 special notes very helpful notes but i want to know that if i have purchased a Lion from App store ,can i use this lion for my serveral Macs without paying anything extra except one time payment $29.99 . In short Can i use Lion for my serveral Mac and if YES then How...

As long as all the Macs are in the same household yes. Just follow the directions for making an image with the InstallESD.DMG file to either a DVD disc, or flash drive.