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Instant on & Lion - not instant..
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quick thought... has apple actually advertised instant on for this new generation of macbook air?
Yes. See the section titled "Instant On Gratification"
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html
I ran this last night and let it go into deep sleep. Perhaps it was marginally faster, though it didn't "forget" my preferred wi-fi connection as it has in the past. I'll see if it stays that way. That said, it still went from 98% yesterday to 95% this morning (actually briefly dropping down to 94% as I plugged in the charger).
Well, it's not as bad as quoting the old "make sure you repair permissions" voodoo, but those commands aren't going to fix any wake-from-sleep issues.
1. sudo chown root:admin /
Sets the owner of all files/directories in the top-level directory of your hard drive to the root user, and their group to admin. In fact, some of these files are usually owned by root:wheel and root:staff.
2. sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
This updates the system's kernel with all the drivers (kexts) in the extensions folder. Might speed up your booting, but when you resume from sleep, the kernel's *already* loaded and running.
3. sudo kextcache -system-caches
This rebuilds some caches for various drivers in your system
Again, when you're waking from sleep this stuff is already loaded in memory.
Thanks. So this might speed up reboot times, but won't do anything about waking from sleep. Anyway, mine has been reasonably OK, but I still would like some Lion updates soon to fix the bugs.
How has everyone done under 10.7.1? I definitely noticed less lag (mouse unresponsive) after awake
From deep sleep
From deep sleep
It's been a mixed bag. I still occasionally get a lost Wi-Fi connection from deep sleep, and it still takes about 10 seconds (I have encrypted my drive, but it should still do a bit better than that). However, from normal sleep, it wakes up about as quickly as my 2010 did, and it connects to Wi-Fi by the time I'm finished typing in my FileVault password (quicker than the 2010 connected).
I noticed this as well as eventually went back to Snow Leopard. I recently installed the new firmware update (EFI?) and now I notice the same problem in Snow Leopard.
I guess I can give Lion another shot now, hah
I guess I can give Lion another shot now, hah
Flip2gig
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11" i5 10.7.1 having the same issues. Instant on is horrible, 2-3 second freeze, mouse will hang up, sometimes it will hang for 10 seconds.
I have my wallpaper set to change every 5 minutes, so it will want to swap backgrounds everytime out of sleep. Yeah I could turn this feature off but Apple needs to fix this ASAP!
I have my wallpaper set to change every 5 minutes, so it will want to swap backgrounds everytime out of sleep. Yeah I could turn this feature off but Apple needs to fix this ASAP!
I was just about to post something about instant on when I saw this subscribed thread pop back up.
My news is on the positive side though. I don't know what happened, but my "instant on" is pretty damn close to instant all of a sudden. I too was plagued by the unresponsive track pad for several seconds after upgrading to lion. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but the past several days the computer wakes as close to instant as you can get. Cursor is ready to go as soon as the lid opens, the only thing I have to wait for is my wifi connection and that happens pretty fast too.
Whatever it was that "fixed" the problem, i'm grateful. It's as responsive as SL was.
My news is on the positive side though. I don't know what happened, but my "instant on" is pretty damn close to instant all of a sudden. I too was plagued by the unresponsive track pad for several seconds after upgrading to lion. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but the past several days the computer wakes as close to instant as you can get. Cursor is ready to go as soon as the lid opens, the only thing I have to wait for is my wifi connection and that happens pretty fast too.
Whatever it was that "fixed" the problem, i'm grateful. It's as responsive as SL was.
Seriously I have no idea what you guys are doing. When I wake my MBA 2011 with i7 up, it takes 2 secs max until I can use it, but its more like 1 second or something like that.
Even if it would be 4, jesus, what are you guys up to? 🙂
Do you have to hurry that much? 😛
Even if it would be 4, jesus, what are you guys up to? 🙂
Do you have to hurry that much? 😛
My toshiba qosmio f60-10k (with 5400RPM hdd) starts from sleep in 3 seconds, with wifi-trackpad and mouse working 😉
Although the window "sleep" function drains a loooot of battery (it lasts ~4 hours in sleep).
Although the window "sleep" function drains a loooot of battery (it lasts ~4 hours in sleep).
Seriously, you can better keep your MBA on then and still have more battery than your windows laptop in sleep mode lol :-D
That's why I'm trying to sell it and buy an MBA 😉 While watching videos, it will last ~30 minutes... I can watch a full 20min episode of a sitcom!! Not even a 40minute one 🙁 and we better not talk about a movie...
Then again, it's mostly a desktop replacement, not so much a mobile computer...
My 11" i7 can take up to 7-8 seconds to wake from deep sleep.
Seriously, I have no idea what you are doing to get yours to wake so quickly..
Mhhh weird. I have no idea, it's 2-3 seconds MAX. but more like 1-2 seconds.
I have no idea, gonna ask my brother how fast his one is.
I have no idea, gonna ask my brother how fast his one is.
Gemütlichkeit
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for me it's completely random so far.. sometimes i'ts instant like an iphone.. others it takes 10 seconds
My brother also got 1-2 seconds. Has to be some kind of program or something I guess if it takes 8 seconds...
xkmxkmxlmx
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Just gonna chime in with: I had a 2010 Snow Leopard that was literally INSTANT on. I have a 2011 installed with Lion and there is a definite difference. Nothing to cry about, but damn that instant on was just a cool thing to see.