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Massive interface Lag ?
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Mid-2012 MacBook Air with Intel HD4000 - Little or no lag. Mission Control smooth...
Mid-2010 MacBook Pro with nVidia GT 330m - Laggy as hell, especially Mission Control...
I suppose that's understandable for an early preview. For sure we can expect performance improvements in the future.
By the way, did you try the integrated graphics card? I have a 15" mid 2010 mbp, and I was wondering if "eye candy" interface features such as transparencies will be available for this model, as Intel HD Graphics is a scant device.
Just checking if other people are having massive interface lag when dragging finder windows or similar around on the desktop? it's very obvious and totally broken... just checking if its the upgrade or if everyone is having this
basically unusable in a VM. been trying just to get xcode to install, just took several hours, and the UI is sluggish as hell too... going to have to wait for the next DP...
Parallels Access Causing MASSIVE lag
Run the uninstall script - system no longer lags:
http://kb.parallels.com/117142
Run the uninstall script - system no longer lags:
http://kb.parallels.com/117142
Holy crap. I've been trying to figure this out for weeks and weeks. If you're getting lag and have Parallels, remove it! Or at least remove Parallels Access!!
Thank you so much!
After my first full day on 10.10, YES. Worked a lot with Adobe today (Photoshop/Illustrator) and that is painfully dragging. I've boosted the RAM/Scratch Disc settings and no change.
Trying to bring up the menu for saving images (Control+Click) - that menu pop up is lagging, or it won't come up at all. Dragging an image from an external HD to desktop to edit, sluggish. Opening images in preview I get the dreaded spinning rainbow wheel for a few seconds...then the image appears in Preview. Just feels like the entire computer is struggling.
It is a 2011 Quad Core 3.4GHz, I installed more RAM about 2 years ago (12GB total), No idea, maybe a clean install can help.
Another oddity is my volume setting, it's just louder than before. Before I had the Volume bar at 4,5. Wasn't blasting music and other sounds.
Right now I am literally at 1 volume bar and it's fine. Not a huge deal..it is running on speakers with it's own volume control - I never changed it, like I said, just odd.
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On the Bright side, I actually gained space back on my HDD after installing 10.10. Roughly 900MB! Suppose Yosemite dumped a lot of old large sized unneeded Mavericks files(?)
Trying to bring up the menu for saving images (Control+Click) - that menu pop up is lagging, or it won't come up at all. Dragging an image from an external HD to desktop to edit, sluggish. Opening images in preview I get the dreaded spinning rainbow wheel for a few seconds...then the image appears in Preview. Just feels like the entire computer is struggling.
It is a 2011 Quad Core 3.4GHz, I installed more RAM about 2 years ago (12GB total), No idea, maybe a clean install can help.
Another oddity is my volume setting, it's just louder than before. Before I had the Volume bar at 4,5. Wasn't blasting music and other sounds.
Right now I am literally at 1 volume bar and it's fine. Not a huge deal..it is running on speakers with it's own volume control - I never changed it, like I said, just odd.
On the Bright side, I actually gained space back on my HDD after installing 10.10. Roughly 900MB! Suppose Yosemite dumped a lot of old large sized unneeded Mavericks files(?)
"Minor". Even that is unacceptable. Microsoft engineers did this back in the day in vista but I guess Apple guys are not that skilled.
I*m on a full spec late 2013 iMac, the entire system became extremely slow on installing Yosemite, tired a reinstall and it was no better.
Thankfully I had a TM fresh back up ready to go just in case.
I'm going to wait a couple of weeks and try again..
This seems to be a hit or miss update for people. I really liked the look and features Yosemite offers, so hoping I can get it running properly at some point.
Thankfully I had a TM fresh back up ready to go just in case.
I'm going to wait a couple of weeks and try again..
This seems to be a hit or miss update for people. I really liked the look and features Yosemite offers, so hoping I can get it running properly at some point.
I could be the problem, oddly my activity monitor didn't show anything unusual.
Yosemite caused significant lag on my mid-2014 rMBP, and it was enough to cause me to revert to Mavericks. It was incredibly off-putting.
I would say that the whole system was perceptively slower, but I notice particularly egregious lag when I would open stacks/folders on my dock.
It's unfortunate, because I have an iMac 27" that's four years old and was running Yosemite pretty well. That said, it was still noticeably slower than Mavericks. There are other reasons why I reverted that particular machine to Mavericks, honestly I'm just not a fan of Yosemite, but the animations generally ran smoothly if not quite as smooth as Mavericks.
Surely it is an optimization issue; Mavericks on the rMBP is perceptively faster in every way than the iMac. Under Yosemite, though, the advantages of the iMac in terms of performance are nullified by the fact that it doesn't have a retina display and struggles to look crisp on Yosemite. It's Apple's planned obsolescence in action - pressuring consumers to get Retina displays. I'm particularly unimpressed with Yosemite and will run Mavericks until I'm sufficiently convinced to move to Yosemite - and it's going to take a lot of convincing because this is the first release that I have been particularly displeased with. I even liked Lion more than Yosemite.
I would say that the whole system was perceptively slower, but I notice particularly egregious lag when I would open stacks/folders on my dock.
It's unfortunate, because I have an iMac 27" that's four years old and was running Yosemite pretty well. That said, it was still noticeably slower than Mavericks. There are other reasons why I reverted that particular machine to Mavericks, honestly I'm just not a fan of Yosemite, but the animations generally ran smoothly if not quite as smooth as Mavericks.
Surely it is an optimization issue; Mavericks on the rMBP is perceptively faster in every way than the iMac. Under Yosemite, though, the advantages of the iMac in terms of performance are nullified by the fact that it doesn't have a retina display and struggles to look crisp on Yosemite. It's Apple's planned obsolescence in action - pressuring consumers to get Retina displays. I'm particularly unimpressed with Yosemite and will run Mavericks until I'm sufficiently convinced to move to Yosemite - and it's going to take a lot of convincing because this is the first release that I have been particularly displeased with. I even liked Lion more than Yosemite.
Same here. 2009 MP / GTX285 had no UI issues with 10.9, now switching desktops, opening/saving dialogs are horrendously choppy/laggy. Even the animation when opening finder from a drive icon sometimes just stops then pops up (animation skips completely).
I have a CCC bootable backup but I'm hoping this is fixed with a quick 10.10.1 update.
I have a CCC bootable backup but I'm hoping this is fixed with a quick 10.10.1 update.
Or is anyone having FileVault encryption going on while you're experience lag? That was the issue for me the first day.
this is just one person's opinion but I was having tons of issues after upgrading to Yosemite on my 2010 iMac. it was so bad that I thought this release was terrible after a couple of days of watching the spinning beach ball while trying to do basically anything I bit the bullet today and did a clean install and erased the drive. It was like night and day as soon as I restarted. I'm sure that most people won't want to do this since it's such a major pain but it worked.
I followed these instructions to create a bootable drive and then followed the same instructions to do a clean install.
http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/16/make-os-x-yosemite-boot-install-drive/
hope that helps somebody who is tearing their hair out like I was!
I followed these instructions to create a bootable drive and then followed the same instructions to do a clean install.
http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/16/make-os-x-yosemite-boot-install-drive/
hope that helps somebody who is tearing their hair out like I was!
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Parallels or VMWare Fusion? I just upgraded the Fusion VM to Yosemite and it is close to unusable because of UI but I didn't have issues in installing xcode, or similar. I am not sure if that is completely a Yosemite issue or a Fusion issue, since Fusion keeps bugging me to update to the latest version that is "optimised" for Yosemite.
Inspired by all the stuff written lately about poor software quality coming from Apple, I tried installing clean version of Yosemite on my work mac.
Long story short it still sucks! Even something as simple as scrolling through files(only about 200 files) in Finder is laggy. All was indexed and good to go so it wasn´t because of that. Yosemite is just really bad.
So now I´ve tested this on two different macs. 13-inch Mid 2010, with SSD, and 15-inch mid 2010 i5, with HDD.
Long story short it still sucks! Even something as simple as scrolling through files(only about 200 files) in Finder is laggy. All was indexed and good to go so it wasn´t because of that. Yosemite is just really bad.
So now I´ve tested this on two different macs. 13-inch Mid 2010, with SSD, and 15-inch mid 2010 i5, with HDD.