Under Snow Leopard my laptop was great but under Lion it is a real dog. Very long waits during login, safari takes forever to load, user switching is basically unusable now (but was under snow leopard), etc etc.

So far I have gone through all of my login apps and disabled almost all of them. I also installed icleanmemory. Still dog slow.

I have 4gb of ram and if I'm reading the owc website correctly I max out at 8gb. Let me know if this is right. Also let me know if there's anything else I can disable to reduce memory usage.


Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2012 12:47AM by lazydays.

Sure, $40-50 will get you to 8 gigs of ram, could help, but I bet it doesnt.

You could try that first if you have the $$,

You could try a new user, however I would be prepared to do a complete nuke and pave. Dont ask me why, but just at some point it just seems like the best thing to do.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2012 01:18AM by jdc.

you need to run Disk Utility to fix permissions and the directory structure.

after that, take a look at activity monitor and see what processes are consuming the most processor time. investigate those processes.

you can also try creating a new user and logging in under it. do you have the same speed issues? if not, then there is something wrong with your user account.

in my experience this is less work than nuke and pave.

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Since you are in Lion, you can boot to the Recovery drive (option key at start up) and do both repairs.

Use the latest OnyX or similar app to clean up the drive, and then test both your normal User account and a different User account for comparison.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2012 09:15AM by Aardvark.

I had an issue like this when I moved my Mac Pro to Lion. Migration Assistant carried over some things that didn't play nice with Lion. Nuked and paved, migrated over users and settings. Reinstalled needed apps. No more problems. It had been a long time since I did a fresh install, so who knows what caused the problem or how long it had been there.

Lately, OS X does NOT release RAM after use the way it should. Buy "Free Memory" in the App Store and run often. Will fix a lot of those issues.

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Lately, OS X does NOT release RAM after use the way it should. Buy "Free Memory" in the App Store and run often. Will fix a lot of those issues.

sounds like OS 9 days. We were told that OS X (unix) has much better memory management.

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Lately, OS X does NOT release RAM after use the way it should. Buy "Free Memory" in the App Store and run often. Will fix a lot of those issues.

Free Memory was a free app last time I downloaded it. Agree with this recommendation in general, although it doesn't explain the startup slowness at all.
I think the behavior you mention started with later versions of Snow Leopard.
Disagree with JDC-- taking RAM to 8 GB is necessary, as a first step or otherwise, for a mac that gets daily use running Snow or later.

It does sound like something is up with the hard drive or install in this particular instance.
It comes up clean in Disk Utility?

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