Anyone annoyed with "slowness" of their MBP?

[shoulin333]

OSX as with all flavors of linux take a while to load apps on first load.

get a 7200RPM HDD

 

[Pressure]

Have you tried reinstalling Mac OS X from scratch?

If the "slowness" still bothers you I would seriously consider a Solid State Drive like the Intel X25-M.

I wouldn't go back to a slow 5400RPM harddrive as a boot drive ever again.

 

[damnyooneek]

its not your computer its the application youre using. firefox takes a very long time to start up with all the add ons. after it has opened the info is saved in the ram and it will open faster until you reboot. try any computer pc or mac and firefox is the same.

if you have a problem with things showing up slowly in the finder, upgrade the hd to a 7200rpm hd or get a solid state hd.

thats all you can do or wait a few years for technology to catch up to your standards

 

[madog]

Hm, well I didn't have my speakers on mute when I restarted my computer today and there was NO chime...and I've experienced it a couple of times before, too. Should I be worried?

p.s.: I keep my MBP connected to the AUX jack of my Hi-fi system (it was turned on tho).

If you don't have any speakers or headphones plugged in, and you always have the volume up, and you sometimes don't hear the chime then that may indicate a problem. Not necessarily serious, as the only time I have experienced it is when upgrading hardware (adding RAM or a HDD) and forgetting to reset the PRAM properly.

Having speakers plugged in changes the output, of which the internal speakers and external speakers can have different volumes, thus making the chime volume sometimes be different if the speakers/headphones are unplugged/plugged back in (in such that the volume keys on keyboard affect whatever output is in use, so if you have speakers plugged in and you mute it through the keyboard it will mute the headphones but the computer will still chime).

It's not supposed to be this complicated, I just don't feel like I'm explaining it well .

 

[jon08]

shoulin: I might as well consider a 7200 rpm disk then...

Pressure: I did a clean install about a month and a half ago. Doesn't seem to make much difference tho.

madog: Sounds pretty complicated lol. But well, I tried restarting my mac twice without it being plugged into my Hi-fi, and both times the chime DID sound... Still, if I remember right the chime would usually sound regardless of being plugged or not...

 

[pol0001]

Firefox is slow as hell on OS X. Thats your first problem.

For me it's the other way around. Safari is slow as hell, while Firefox is pretty fast.

 

[toolbox]

Have you tried reinstalling Mac OS X from scratch?

Good point. I have had my MBP for 6 months it's been erased twice. once when i got it and the second time because i stuffed something. I have never noticed any slowness at all. Even when exporting movies and watching dvds whilst it's exporting i never had slowness.