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I am ready to dump mountain lion and go back to snow leopard

Can someone stop me? I am so frustrated with lion and now mountain lion that I am actually looking at dumping the OS X 10.8 and reverting back to snow leopard.

I have a small office with three mac machines. I have been a fan of the macs for many years, even though we have software for enigineering that requires a windows versions. I have several issues that will not go away on each machine. I have a table below that describes a few of the problems. These problems have left me and my staff with no trust that our work is safe (yes, we do backups and TM). Our work flow is no longer fluid or fun with mountain lion.

Machine	OS X issues
Macbook 2009 5,0 running 10.7.3	Graphics problems, extremely slow performance opening and closing files.
Macbook Pro mid 2009, 5,1 now testing 10.8.3 beta	Graphics problems, dropped WIFI, time machine corruption, very slow finder performance, CUDA performance issues, loads of lsboxd issues, spotlite runs indexing alot, Sync services still broken in mountain lion. Cannot keep the Adobe licensing for Creative Suite 4 activated. Fresh install of 10.8.2
Macbook Pro Late 2011, running 10.8.2	Graphics problems, flash problems, kernel panics after sleep, Kernel panics with VM Ware fusion 5.0.2, Memory relase issues after software quits, Very slow finder performance, Safari causes kernel panics. Any panic causes multiple versions of Office for mac 2011 autosaved files from one original file., spotlite indexing issues. Sync services still broken in mountain lion. Fresh install of 10.8.2

I am normally a good troubleshooter and have resolved many issues so far. But they just cntiue and I am spending a lot of time resolving problems with the machine's OS that I could be using for productivity. I guess I feel like the old days as an engineer in an office where windows requires a near constant windows administrator.

Is this just me whining? Is anyone else suffering through the OS X 10.7 and 10.8 issues?

Somebady tell me I am crazy... I just want to get back to work.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), mid 2009 15 inch MBP

Posted on Feb 16, 2013 12:39 PM

37 replies

Apr 1, 2013 4:06 PM in response to petermac87

Ok Pete and Daddy just calm down. You are both trying to help and it is appreciated greatly. Thank you.

FWIW, I am discussinh a mid 2009 MBP 15" and Late 2011 MBP 13" and an Early 2010 MB. Sorry, actually the Early 2010 MB is running Snow Leopard.

Look don't anyone get the wrong idea here I am willing to push through, but at some point, we have to get our work done without major issue.

The whole reason we switched out to macs and OS X is we I did not want to spend time fixing computers and software which I did when I handled the servers on windows and workstations. This was very successful on Snow Leopard but Mountain lion I am exhausted traveling troubling everyones problems on 4 machines while I am supoos to be running the business. When we are more profitable, I'll hire a 75K a year iT person to handle it and probably never learn of another computer problem. Just in case you wanted to know...

petermac87

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Apr 1, 2013 4:19 PM in response to petermac87

petermac87 wrote:

tikitman wrote:

etc. etc.

Start your own thread. Your problems have nothing to do with the op's and will only cause confusion here.

Pete

Yep, happens every time, unfortunately. Your issues got lost amongst the threadjumpers.

Good Luck

Pete

manchi

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Apr 7, 2013 7:58 AM in response to tikitman

I agree completely with Tikitman. I installed Mountain Lion and I have had continuous problems since. I am very sorry that I made that big mistake. On top of that, once you installed Mountain Lion you can not go back to Snow Leopard unles you erase everything in your computer. Apple should have arranged for us users to be able to switch from one sytem to the other without complicating our existence. If Apple change that policy I will continue with Mac if not, I will be forced to abandoned it. Note: I have been a Mac user since 1982, always happy with Mac till I installed Maclion.

Sep 24, 2013 8:17 PM in response to jackfromdenver

I have had great success with a late 2009 Macbook running Mountain Lion upon following the steps detailed in this post: http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259

Sep 25, 2013 11:46 AM in response to Patrick Rynhart

I don't know how you found this but it works for me. Thank you so much for sharing.

Sep 26, 2013 2:32 PM in response to jackfromdenver

Hi Jack,

I'm really pleased to learn that this has made a difference for you. Anecdotally, I'm coming across people who are unhappy with 10.8.X performance (and talking about how great 10.6 was in comparison). In my experience, however, once this (aggressive) power management 'feature' is disabled, the performance seems comparable.

Perhaps this idea of the kernel 'stealing' CPU time makes sense from the point of view of keeping machines cool, but the implementation seems flawed if the user experience is turning to 'treacle'.

Thanks for the feedback.

With Thanks,

Patrick Rynhart

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Dec 29, 2013 4:30 PM in response to jackfromdenver

Hey guys,

I just installed OS X 10.8 on my late Mackbook 2009 and I have few issues. As first is really slow, second programs takes ages to load and as final I cannot install Skype it get frozen :-/. I might guess cause I only have 2gb on Ram or could be another issues?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Carlos

I am ready to dump mountain lion and go back to snow leopard