You need to get that disk repaired! It appears that Disk Utility reports errors but that you have not repaired them yet. This should always be done before attempting anything else.
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Leopard slow on a brand new Macbook
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Back up your important data, wipe the drive and do a clean install. It sounds like the transferring of files to your clean OS did not go over well, especially if you have glitching system animations and such. It is likely a conflict of previous system files/settings with Tiger.
If you don't want to do that, bring it to an Apple store and let them run their utilities on it. Assuming you have the system discs and a spare harddrive, backing up/wiping your system and installing a new OS will take the better part of an afternoon.
If you don't want to do that, bring it to an Apple store and let them run their utilities on it. Assuming you have the system discs and a spare harddrive, backing up/wiping your system and installing a new OS will take the better part of an afternoon.
damn...
the problem is that I don't have an external drive. i'll have one in 1 month more or less. and the apple service people are shmucks... or at least people missing the basic level of empathy.
I guess I'll just keep it like this until then. What about the previous system folder? what does it contain? what to do with it? until I move my files I have to keep my disk fairly free (10gigs at least), so I'm looking for any data I don't need and bin it.
Just to confirm: so Leo should run like Virgin Mary with 1Gb, right?
the problem is that I don't have an external drive. i'll have one in 1 month more or less. and the apple service people are shmucks... or at least people missing the basic level of empathy.
I guess I'll just keep it like this until then. What about the previous system folder? what does it contain? what to do with it? until I move my files I have to keep my disk fairly free (10gigs at least), so I'm looking for any data I don't need and bin it.
Just to confirm: so Leo should run like Virgin Mary with 1Gb, right?
Not necessarily. If it didn't repair disk damage then it would have said so. You can run it again, but this probably isn't going to be helpful.
Did you try removing the torrent applications?
no, I switched to transmission, as someone suggested it before. Torrent apps shouldn't be a problem. I know that not all of them (I guess none) are updated for Leo, nevertheless they should work.
Another pet peeve of mine is newbies referring to Slack as free space , this annoys me because it symbolizes Lack of Technological illiteracy.
So for all feature ref fence please reffer to your Frees pace as slack which is the correct terminology used in the A plus pc repair technician training manual
So the correct way to state he 20 percent free space point above is 20% slack (aws with all OSes).
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FloridaBSD
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you know, the funny thing with the tiger on my prevous MB, was that it was nowhere close to the level of glitchyness / choppyness that I experience on a brand new MB with the apple's latest development in OS, and it was with about 3GB slack, on a 80 GB drive. It worked perfectly fine, which makes me think that the problem must yet be elsewhere. I'm not sayin it doesn't matter, I'm sayin it worked fine before.
Torrent applications are a frequent source of issues. I'm not sure which ones are better or worse. If you could try running without any of them for a while this could be eliminated as a source of your performance issues. Do I understand correctly that the issues are limited to the Finder?
Both Transmission and Azureus are fine for me on Leopard.
Seriously, does it really matter?
after revising the issues are as follows:
- long boot time, compared to my previous MB, = about a minute
- expose is not smooth - switching between windows is glitchy
- opening an app causes beach ball effect. even with apple apps like iTunes, iPhoto etc. Not to mention Photoshop, MS Office... They eventually open.
- opening a finder window is not immediate, it takes 5 - 10 seconds.
- when working with lots of windows / apps, beach ball effect appears.
- applications folder is glitchy - but I already know that everyone has it, I read the Mac OS X 10.5.x features / fixes / troubleshooting
- switching between the albums in iTunes (with album art) is glitchy too. It seems like it needs more time to preload everything. I have about 30 GB of music.
maybe I will add something to this list later on, but for now no. 2,3,4 are annoying me.
^^ Apps folder is fine on my MacBook. I also have no beachballing. However I do have 2GB RAM. How much do you have? (Check in Apple Menu>About this Mac) as having more will reduce beach balling.
I've got one, mate, and I am starting to think that this is the main source of my problems. I just don't know if anyone else is out there with 1 gig and having these issues.
What does your pie chart look like? Post a pic of your Activity Monitor with an avg. # of applications open. If you're down to <50mb within a day of uptime, you could probably do with more memory. I've got 2gb, and only 37mb free at the moment.
Any virtual memory related slowdowns should not occur right away after a reboot. If the Mac does get slower as you work, and the performance issues disappear for a time after a reboot, then more RAM would help. If not, then it probably won't. BTW, the description "glitchy" doesn't help me understand the problem very well.
I wouldn't say that the performance drops significantly after a couple of hours of work. I would say that it's not right from the beginning, or within very short time after the reboot. By glitchy I mean delayed, or loosing frames in the case of switching between windows and expose. Sorry, English is not my mother tongue.
This is what I'd do. Create a complete clone of your drive via CCC. Reinstall Leopard on your hard drive, and boot into it to see if you notice a speed difference. From there, you can make a judgement call on whether or not to import your settings and programs and files via Migration Assistant or whether to start afresh. Of course, if it's still slow and glitchy, the problem might be memory related.
Leopard slow on a brand new Macbook
I purchased a new Macbook a few weeks ago and it came standard with 2G ram and 160g on the hard drive. No files have been transferred and I am not experiencing any of the problems you describe. I do notice the other white case mac book has 1 g ram and 120gb hard drive. Are you sure that you have 80gb hard drive since that was the previous version of the white case MacBook not the latest version.
I purchased a new Macbook a few weeks ago and it came standard with 2G ram and 160g on the hard drive. No files have been transferred and I am not experiencing any of the problems you describe. I do notice the other white case mac book has 1 g ram and 120gb hard drive. Are you sure that you have 80gb hard drive since that was the previous version of the white case MacBook not the latest version.
yeah, I am sure. I guess it has something to do with the region where you purchase your computer. At the store where I bought it in Buenos Aires, they had the 2.0GHz CPU / 80 GB HD, 2.16 GHz / 120 GB HD, and 2.16 GHz / 160 GB HD. As option you could ask them to crank up the RAM to 2 gigs. My machine is almost the same as the previous one - the only differences are that the one I bought in Poland had a SuperDrive as standard, and this one has a ComboDrive (which sucks), that one had the English keyboard layout and this one has Spanish, and that one had Tiger and this one has Leo. That's all.
Besides you can check the configuration in the About this Mac tab in the tool bar.
You're doing fine. I just wasn't sure what you meant.
How is this going to help? He's already reinstalled OSX (archive & install) which replaced his system files.
It would allow him to officially confirm whether or not his system runs slowly on a fresh install with nothing else on the hard drive but the operating system.