Is Mavericks making your machine run slow?

In a test running from a Firewire disk, Mavericks is running very smoothly, no performance issues, crashes, or slowdowns.

I just used chrome and evernote in this test, but if it runs this well on a FW disk, then an SSD will have no problems at all.

OS X Mavericks makes my Mac Book Pro run slow and slow that my activities which is very annoying. On top of that my built-in camera stops working after 2min of use on Skype which never happened before I install the new OS X system. It is only the begining I havent runned all my applications yet.

Same problem here. EVERYTHING runs slooow. Worst is Mail, I have not been able to open it since uograding to mavericks

After upgrading, my 2008 unibody Macbook was painfully slow. I immediately regretted the upgrade. A couple of hours later, the computer is back up to speed and working great. Apple should warn customers before installing the Mavericks update that their computer could initially experience a temporary slowdown after the upgrade.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

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I had the same problem, installed Mavericks on Mid 2012 Macbook Pro and my machine slowed down horribly, also my battery was showing much less time than normal... I did a recovery and reinstalled Mavericks again and everything is running perfectly... just had to re-authorize some of my programs, otherwise all seems perfect so far!

the following is taken from this page: http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/

Just hold down Command-R during startup and OS X Recovery springs into action. It lets you choose from common utilities: You can run Disk Utility to check or repair your hard drive, erase your hard drive and reinstall a fresh copy of OS X, or restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup. You can even use Safari to get help from Apple Support online. And if OS X Recovery encounters problems, it will automatically connect to Apple over the Internet.

Hope other find this works for them too! Good luck!

mavericks is running VERY painfully slow on my mac mini. mail is the worst, just beachballs if I click anywhere.

I ran disk utilities, removed all the startup items, old caches, gave the programs extra time to startup for the first time. So far nothing's worked. Reinstalling 10.9 with recovery mode now. Too slow to be bearable so hopefully this fixes it.

I am having multiple issues after upgrading as well, first Finder kept crashing every few seconds, hereafter multiple small issues. Most of them could be solved by upgrading 3rd party applications.

In order to find the culprits of your slowdowns, open up the Mac OS X Console and keep an eye on the messages that keep popping up during use. The the printed strings often have the name of the app or you can do a quick online search.

This way I was able to find several 3rd party utilities which were causing problems and updating or disabling them made my Mac feel a lot faster.

Good luck!

Hi everybody, I am french i gonna do my best to have a good speaking 😉

I have big problem of speed since I intalled Mavericks: (imac 27, mid 2011, 3,4 Ghz, 8 Go RAM)

Kernel task: 5Go

mdworker 1 Go

etc...

And swap swap swap... I installed Mavericks 12 hours ago .. and not better. Spot light scan is finish since few hours..

I am about to come back to ML..

Do you have more informations?

I am a film compositor and have just finished work on Nelson Mandela's film "Long Walk to Freedom". But now I can not do any film work, thanks to you Apple, I am now in danger of losing my income.

Apple needs to understand they are causing serious harm to people when they release a faulty OS

Apple, because of Mavericks 3 programs that I use on a daily basis, has slowed down to an unusable state.

Programs affected:

Nuke 7
Photoshop CC
After Effects CC

Apple you have just fu*ked me. This is my daily bread, my income. Why do you do this to me when I support you so loyally. Guess you don't really care Tim Cook.

jvanhuys,

I don't really know what Nuke 3 is, but I'm successfully running Photoshop CC and After Effects CC quite speedily - faster than when used with Mountain Lion, even.

You may want to jump over to the Adobe forums to see what's up with your CC apps...

Clinton

jvanhuys wrote:

I am a film compositor and have just finished work on Nelson Mandela's film "Long Walk to Freedom". But now I can not do any film work, thanks to you Apple, I am now in danger of losing my income.

Apple needs to understand they are causing serious harm to people when they release a faulty OS

Apple, because of Mavericks 3 programs that I use on a daily basis, has slowed down to an unusable state.

Programs affected:

Nuke 7
Photoshop CC
After Effects CC

Apple you have just fu*ked me. This is my daily bread, my income. Why do you do this to me when I support you so loyally. Guess you don't really care Tim Cook.

Photoshop CC and AE CC fine here also. Same - never heard of Nuke 7. All other Pro Apps runninf fast and fine as well.

Pete

To be completely honest you should not hav upgraded if your machines are mssion critical. upgrading on release day really is foolish unless your machine is for basic low level use.

Roll back to ML and learn from this. Oh and by the way those programs you listed as being affected. Apple does not own or control them but have been encouraging vendors to develop ther apps for Mavericks. it is them you should focus your attention on.

Next time wait until the venodrs of the software apps your income depends on release an update and state that they support mavericks.

"Guess you dont really care Tim Cook" were you the tea boy on the ,long walk home or something?