Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

Lol, that's hilarious. We should leave Mr. Cook suggestions. If he doesn't like it we could always go into business together. You even rename your phone Anthropoid....

Surely you should say Is Mavericks making your machine run slowly

jimsmc wrote:

Surely you should say Is Mavericks making your machine run slowly

I suppose that depends on where the OP comes from and their grasp on the English language (not all Apple users come from English speaking countries😉) Are you here for help or to correct someones English? Despite the topic's title not meeting with your approval, the OP has solved their issue and most likely moved on and will not see your correction.

But thanks for your vigilance.

Pete

here to help

I'll have to wait, I think, for Apple to improve their lamentable offering ......

jimsmc wrote:

I'll have to wait, I think, for Apple to improve their lamentable offering ......

Sounds like you have computer issues. Try starting a new discussion and trying to resolve it instead of posting riddles here in a solved thread.

Cheers

Pete

SKrace wrote:

Hi, I'm a totally new iMac user , and after reading about Mavericks I find this really scary .

First, since you say you have had issues for some time, I strongly recommend you fix those before upgrading to Mavericks. Your iMac should not be behaving that way and an upgrade will almost certainly fix that, so get that taken care of and in all probability Mavericks will work even better for you.

I see you have not yet taken the advise of others yet, so I'll just echo that you won't get that taken care of here. If your iMac is still under warrantee, then get some help from an Apple "Genius". If you want our help then go to either the iMac or Mountain Lion Forum and ask your question, completely describing your iMac (year, model, how much RAM and free hard drive space you have). Then tell us in detail what issues you are observing when you use it. You might even download, run and post the results of EtreCheck which is designed by one of your fellow users to tell us about your setup.

Indeed

Nice one Petermac , thank you for making me laugh . I will certainly take your advice , and drop into a local UK store , before going Maverick , hope they don't charge (even though it's apple insured ).

And see if they are helpful and chimp in. .lol .

Thank you all . .

Ummmm, it was my idea, based on a typo. Do I get no credit?! Interesting debate on intellectual property coming on , I feel. The OP really must be rather confused, by now.

We will argue that out in court after the release of OSX Spider Monkey.

Pete

Fair enough,sir. Now that would be confusing: an arachnid primate.Thank goodness we don't have to litigate for Mavericks, or other characters from the Wild West, because I'd have to bring along my old pal, Mel Gibson, as a star witness.

What's next for Apple OS's? Earp? Holliday? Bean?!!

Although it's easy to check on the source for the name Mavericks, I'll save you the time. It's named for a notoriously difficult surfing location in northern California. And its name originated from a surfer's dog - named Maverick. Thus, it was Maverick's (possesive) beach. Since it's a geographicsl location, the apostrophe is dropped and you have Mavericks.

If you have a new install of Mavericks, you'll now understand why the default desktop wallpaper is an enormous wave.

Chuck Gould wrote:

Although it's easy to check on the source for the name Mavericks, I'll save you the time. It's named for a notoriously difficult surfing location in northern California. And its name originated from a surfer's dog - named Maverick. Thus, it was Maverick's (possesive) beach. Since it's a geographicsl location, the apostrophe is dropped and you have Mavericks.

If you have a new install of Mavericks, you'll now understand why the default desktop wallpaper is an enormous wave.

Yes it was widely mentioned before it's release and may be the start of a run of Californian Landmark named OSXs. 😐

Cheers

Pete

Hi, For what it's worth I will tell you my experiences. I have a 2009 iMac 27" and a 2011 MB air 13".

After upgrading to mavericks the MB air was fine! no problems at all. The iMac however was painfully slow at everything.

I read this post and tried everything here and sometimes I would think there was a slight improvement and other times there was no difference.

I tried a clean install and then restored from a time machine backup. Still running slow.

So as a last resort I reformatted my drive, installed mavericks and then added my software one at a time back on to my machine. A slow process but it also emptied my machine of software I no longer use.

The result, the machine is now working absolutely fine, running as fast sat ever did.

It took a long time for me to make the decision to do this, but was well worth it.

Good luck.