Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Is it my computer or just Lion?

D

dezza.1985

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 17, 2010
61
0
Hi

I have a Macbook Pro which I purchased in May 2010 2.4 Core Duo 13". I only ever use basic tasks, web browsing, iTunes etc.

I never used to have a problem with any lag when running on Snow Leopard, however since I upgraded to Lion it has been very laggy, Safari, connecting to wifi, opening pages etc.

Is this just Lion as the bugs haven't been fixed yet or am I going to have to look at upgrading ram (currently 4gb), clean install etc?
 
a lot of people are complaining about lion slowing down their macs, check out the endless topics here and in the Lion forum
 
This sort of thing happened to me also, when I did the upgrade from SL to Lion.. I did a clean install and all my problems were resolved and Lion now feels faster than SL.
 
I did a clean install on a 15" 2010 MBP i5 4GB and have not seen any sluggishnes in Lion just pesky bugs.
 
I highly recommend a clean install. Put it on a Flash drive and do a total wipe and install. My late 2007 mini, 2008 MBP and 2010 MBP are all running great and were all clean installs.
 
RafaelT said:
I highly recommend a clean install. Put it on a Flash drive and do a total wipe and install. My late 2007 mini, 2008 MBP and 2010 MBP are all running great and were all clean installs.
Click to expand...

how do you do a clean install?
 
RafaelT said:
I highly recommend a clean install. Put it on a Flash drive and do a total wipe and install. My late 2007 mini, 2008 MBP and 2010 MBP are all running great and were all clean installs.
Click to expand...

When doing a clean install, can you then restore your documents/itunes etc from time machine? Or does this just restore to the exact set up and therefore making the clean install a waste?

Also if doing a clean install, will this erase all my play counts etc?
 
You know I am not sure.

I always make sure to have two copies of my data, including when I do a clean install. Time Machine is always my backup copy, I also copy files (itunes, documents, etc) to a usb drive and usually just drag them back from that.

Maybe someone else can give you a little more info.
 
Hard drive swap out or Lion?

Now it could be the fact that I just swapped out my hard drive or it could be Lion, you tell me:

Ever since I swapped out my hard-drve, when I press the power button, it takes a few extra seconds for the apple logo to pop up onto the white screen, before it used to be instantaneous, what is that from, is there anyway I can shorten the amount of how long the interval between the power button press and the display of the apple logo?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back