Laggy Launch Pad and Graphics

[tpho]

I have the late 2007 black Macbook (http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...-2.2-black-13-late-2007-santa-rosa-specs.html)

It has 4GB of RAM and I recently did a clean install of OS X Lion. Any kind of graphics processes is a little laggy compared to Snow Leopard.

Some things I've noticed are-

-Launch pad: A little hitchy when opened/scrolling. The icons jiggle when you hold down the ALT-key but it lags as it jiggles.

-YouTube: Videos are a little laggy.

-Screensaver: Also laggy.

-No ripple effect from widgets.

Running in 32-bit/64-bit mode doesn't change anything.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Goftrey]

I'm afraid that's what you can expect running Lion on 5 year old integrated graphics. There's no way around it, I actually ended up downgrading back to Snow Leopard due to the pretty horrific graphics performance shown on my late 2006 MacBook.

 

[Tesselator]

Ya, OS's are optimized for the hardware they were written for.

Kinda like steam engines vs. the internal combustion gasoline engine; if you try to fuel the later with coal and water it's going to cough and sputter.