Snow Leopard: Gets better with every boot

helix21 · Aug 30, 2009, 01:58 PM

For those of you having issues with snow leopard: be patient, wait and reboot. It gets much better with every boot.
First boot was horibble as usual and it took about 1.5 min between my wallpaper showing up to the time the dock showed up
Second boot was where i used the computer and it was painfully slow
Third boot was acceptable but expose and spaces choppy and safari a pain. It was where i was for about a day.
Fourth boot - extremely fast bootup and everything seems extremely fast and zippy. Animations are largely back to normal, spotlight is instantaneous, icons cache instantly in spaces when digging into folders and the whole OS seems complete

So if your disappointed with snow leopard, before clean installing or even reinstalling leopard, give it a day or two

aristotelis · Aug 30, 2009, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by helix21

For those of you having issues with snow leopard: be patient, wait and reboot. It gets much better with every boot.
First boot was horibble as usual and it took about 1.5 min between my wallpaper showing up to the time the dock showed up
Second boot was where i used the computer and it was painfully slow
Third boot was acceptable but expose and spaces choppy and safari a pain. It was where i was for about a day.
Fourth boot - extremely fast bootup and everything seems extremely fast and zippy. Animations are largely back to normal, spotlight is instantaneous, icons cache instantly in spaces when digging into folders and the whole OS seems complete

So if your disappointed with snow leopard, before clean installing or even reinstalling leopard, give it a day or two

That is a very good observation. My SL installation was pretty much ok from the first boot, but I also noticed that it got faster and better after 2 or 3 reboots. I also think it helped it to redo each caches or whatever it does when I let it on for the night. The day after everything was faster/smoother/better.
It still amazes me the time it needs to shutdown. 3 secs... count them, 1...2...3... off.

djon41 · Aug 30, 2009, 02:06 PM

haha, i thought i was the only one noticing this. strange that we hadnt heard it before, as well.

spencerphoto · Aug 30, 2009, 02:06 PM

I am having problems with Photoshop CS4. It crashes every 5 min. or so since installing Snow Leopard/ Very frustrated.

Jeff Hall · Aug 30, 2009, 02:31 PM

This might just be spotlight indexing all the changes? Maybe it took a while to complete in the background?

I've had no issues whatsoever with SL. I'm sure we'll see the major benefits once developers have written code to take advantage of its new architecture.

buddyguyman · Aug 30, 2009, 02:34 PM

I've clean installed and it's been smooth as butter for me. No major problems to speak of.

helix21 · Aug 30, 2009, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spencerphoto

I am having problems with Photoshop CS4. It crashes every 5 min. or so since installing Snow Leopard/ Very frustrated.

Thats odd, CS4 is said to be tested and be fully compatible with snow leopard. Perhaps reinstall CS4?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Hall

This might just be spotlight indexing all the changes? Maybe it took a while to complete in the background?

I've had no issues whatsoever with SL. I'm sure we'll see the major benefits once developers have written code to take advantage of its new architecture.

Might be, but for now i am loving snow leopard. Who knows what the 5th reboot might bring

. And what 10.6.1 might

AppleThis&That · Aug 30, 2009, 02:42 PM

I did the upgrade and no clean install and it works very nice on the newer "24 iMac 2.66" computer. Very smooth on my end.

I have alot of apps setup to launch at startup and I can't believe how fast everything loads up. It's amazing having 64-Bit.

randyc · Aug 30, 2009, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spencerphoto

I am having problems with Photoshop CS4. It crashes every 5 min. or so since installing Snow Leopard/ Very frustrated.

Wierd, it seems to be working fine for me on my MacBook.

Compile 'em all · Aug 30, 2009, 03:02 PM

it is called the mdworker. You don't need really to "reboot", leaving your machine for quite some time after the first boot is enough.

amoergosum · Aug 30, 2009, 03:04 PM

I did a clean install.
Photoshop CS4 runs smooth without any problems and much faster than before.

Aug 30, 2009, 01:58 PM	#1
helix21 macrumors regular Join Date: Aug 2009	Snow Leopard: Gets better with every boot For those of you having issues with snow leopard: be patient, wait and reboot. It gets much better with every boot. First boot was horibble as usual and it took about 1.5 min between my wallpaper showing up to the time the dock showed up Second boot was where i used the computer and it was painfully slow Third boot was acceptable but expose and spaces choppy and safari a pain. It was where i was for about a day. Fourth boot - extremely fast bootup and everything seems extremely fast and zippy. Animations are largely back to normal, spotlight is instantaneous, icons cache instantly in spaces when digging into folders and the whole OS seems complete So if your disappointed with snow leopard, before clean installing or even reinstalling leopard, give it a day or two

Aug 30, 2009, 02:06 PM	#3
djon41 macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2007	haha, i thought i was the only one noticing this. strange that we hadnt heard it before, as well. __________________ uniMBP, 2.53 Ghz, 4GB, 320@7200 [10.6.2] iPhone 3G S⃣ , 16GB, black [3.1.2]

Aug 30, 2009, 02:34 PM	#6
buddyguyman macrumors 6502 Join Date: Feb 2006	I've clean installed and it's been smooth as butter for me. No major problems to speak of. __________________ 20" Aluminum iMac, 2.0 Ghz, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB HD 80Gb iPod Classic

Aug 30, 2009, 02:42 PM	#8
AppleThis&That macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2009	I did the upgrade and no clean install and it works very nice on the newer "24 iMac 2.66" computer. Very smooth on my end. I have alot of apps setup to launch at startup and I can't believe how fast everything loads up. It's amazing having 64-Bit. __________________ 24" IMAC 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/4GB RAM • 17" IMAC 1.6GHz G5/1GB RAM • IPOD NANO 5th GEN/16GB • IPOD SHUFFLE 3rd GEN/4GB

Aug 30, 2009, 03:02 PM	#10
Compile 'em all macrumors 68030 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 127.0.0.1	it is called the mdworker. You don't need really to "reboot", leaving your machine for quite some time after the first boot is enough. __________________ Apps: Music God, Facebook a Quote http://www.madebypharaohs.com

Aug 30, 2009, 02:06 PM	#4
spencerphoto macrumors newbie Join Date: Aug 2009	I am having problems with Photoshop CS4. It crashes every 5 min. or so since installing Snow Leopard/ Very frustrated.

Aug 30, 2009, 02:31 PM	#5
Jeff Hall macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2006	This might just be spotlight indexing all the changes? Maybe it took a while to complete in the background? I've had no issues whatsoever with SL. I'm sure we'll see the major benefits once developers have written code to take advantage of its new architecture.

Aug 30, 2009, 03:04 PM	#11
amoergosum macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2008	I did a clean install. Photoshop CS4 runs smooth without any problems and much faster than before.

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