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I've seen the rainbow wheel so much, we have become friends

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godzilla1200

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Since I have Lion, my is very slow. I switched to mac because I hated to see the sand clock on Windows, and now I am getting very acquainted with the rainbow wheel and I don't like it.

What makes a mac slow? I have never had this issue before Lion, and is there a way to improve performance and speed it up?
 
godzilla1200 said:
Since I have Lion, my is very slow. I switched to mac because I hated to see the sand clock on Windows, and now I am getting very acquainted with the rainbow wheel and I don't like it.

What makes a mac slow? I have never had this issue before Lion, and is there a way to improve performance and speed it up?
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A couple of things to try. Reset SMC and PRAM. If that does not the issue tey booting into safe mode and see if the performance is better. You may have something installed on your system that needs to be updated or something that is incompatiable with Lion. I would also suggest doing a clean install after doing a backup. Once the clean install is done check the performance. If all is good then start ading back in things you had installed previously. You may find the something which is causing the slow down.
 
Thanks for the help.

I have a Macbook Pro 13" 2.53 GHz Core Duo, 4Gb RAM, 500 GB HDD.

I think the thing that is slowing the computer down is Safari. It's the only app that I have had to Force Quit.

I also have issues when scrolling, but that happens everywhere, it slows down (like in slow motion).

All in all, I am really disappointed in Lion. I am not even a power user, and I am having issues. I wonder what is like for people who uses hardcore apps like photoshop, movie editors, etc.
 
+1 on the Safari "issue"..its what causes beach balls for me more than anything else/
I've got a I7, with 8 gigs of ram...

And, I NEVER had this many beach balls with SL.....EVER!
 
I have the same issue. I started with a completely fresh install and have had tons of beach balls from day one. I created a new user account yesterday and things seem to be better. However, I'm already starting to see the beach ball now. This is with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive.

I was thinking it might be the hard drive; however:

1. Many other people have posted that they have a similar issue, and

2. I have Windows installed on a Boot Camp partition. When I switch over to Windows, I have no slowness, freezing, or anything akin to the beach ball in Lion.
 
wase4711 said:
+1 on the Safari "issue"..its what causes beach balls for me more than anything else/
I've got a I7, with 8 gigs of ram...

And, I NEVER had this many beach balls with SL.....EVER!
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Ditto 15: MBP 8 gigs I7. Safari slows, beach balls, etc.

Any options on a better browser to use?
 
i'm thinking my beachball problem could be because i need a new hard drive, but because my applecare has ran out a month ago it might cost too much to have it replaced., i'd do it myself but an iMac isn't very user replacement friendly. I'd upgrade the hard rive from 320gb to something like 1tb.
 
If it wasn't such a pain getting the folders under "on my mac" in Mail to restore properly, when going back to SL, I would dump lion in a heartbeat..
this just hasn't been a typical mac OS update; this has been a major let down for ALOT of people...
 
rorschach said:
I have the same issue. I started with a completely fresh install and have had tons of beach balls from day one. I created a new user account yesterday and things seem to be better. However, I'm already starting to see the beach ball now. This is with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive.

I was thinking it might be the hard drive; however:

1. Many other people have posted that they have a similar issue, and

2. I have Windows installed on a Boot Camp partition. When I switch over to Windows, I have no slowness, freezing, or anything akin to the beach ball in Lion.
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2GB??? I'm amazed it runs at all.
 
My mini is running Lion on 2.26 Core 2 + 2 GB of ram. I dont have any more issues than I did with SL. I should really upgrade the ram though.
 
I've had to stop using Safari since Lion. FFox is better, but still MUCH slower than it was on Snow Leopard.

Lion is Apple's answer to Windows Vista.
 
I highly recommend FireFox 7 beta. It has been very stable for me and they cut way down on memory usage. It seems to be a much better option then Safari right now until Apple gets their act together.
 
RafaelT said:
I highly recommend FireFox 7 beta. It has been very stable for me and they cut way down on memory usage. It seems to be a much better option then Safari right now until Apple gets their act together.
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I'm definately having better luck with FFox than Safari right now as well. But I'm going to try out Chrome for a few days and see if that's better (I tried Chrome early on and found it to lag quite a bit, so haven't used it lately).
 
The issue seems to be a mix of Safari and Flash. I second the recommendation for Firefox 7 Beta, this runs much better than Safari and earlier versions of FF.
 
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