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Leopard - sluggish
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OK, well looking at the trends here, quick informal poll...
Has anyone done a clean install that is noticing Leopard is sluggish?
or the flipside..
Has anyone done a default upgrade and isn't noticing any sluggish behavior?
Has anyone done a clean install that is noticing Leopard is sluggish?
or the flipside..
Has anyone done a default upgrade and isn't noticing any sluggish behavior?
i had reported earlier that spaces was choppy for me. Thing is i had my macbook connected to a 24" dell lcd monitor. I unplugged the monitor and spaces was silky smooth on the macbook alone. I then plugged in the monitor again and it was retained the smoothness.
anyone else w/ choppiness using a dual screen setup?
anyone else w/ choppiness using a dual screen setup?
Suggestion
Not to hijack the thread, but perhaps we could clean up the responses a bit...
A. Could everyone first list the install method:
B. Your hardware
C. Your perception on speed and overall response
Not to hijack the thread, but perhaps we could clean up the responses a bit...
A. Could everyone first list the install method:
- Clean install (like squeaky clean. zeroed HD, new install)
- Upgrade
- Archive & Install
- Erase & Install
B. Your hardware
C. Your perception on speed and overall response
Archive/In Sig/Sluggish on battery or 'normal' mode...good on best performance mode but sluggish at times as well
Leopard runs great on my Quad 3.0Ghz Mac Pro w/X1900XT.
But I know what you're talking about. I can almost feel the sluggishness on my machine, but I can feel the computer overriding it with the X1900XT card. My brothers Intel Core Duo iMac is sluggish.
But I know what you're talking about. I can almost feel the sluggishness on my machine, but I can feel the computer overriding it with the X1900XT card. My brothers Intel Core Duo iMac is sluggish.
Did you notice that space on your HD went down? I had around 75 GB before install and now I have 135 GB. I noticed I have two Library folders now and one is 35.97 GB another one os 1.82. I don't get it - it doubled.
Yes, I also think it is slow. Stacks are stuttering in grid option. I have application folder and it is way slow to open. Fan option - low res icons, look ridiculous. I have just tried iWorks, Pages and Numbers took 7 sec to open and keynote about 11. It used to be 2-3 and 4 respectively. I don't even mention the design.
I have two month old iMac 24", everything should work fine. I wonder what Apple's return policy on OS's.
I lost about 8G. No printer drivers, no languages. I might do an erase/install with migration assistant from my backup this weekend to see if it improves things.
Archive and Install will make a copy of your previous system and save it during the install. That's probably why your HD space went down so drastically. It seems like a lot the speed issues are from doing an Archive and Install. Could this be true?
To read up on the install options see here
Did you also back up application folder? If I do fresh install and then move applications back to new apps folder, will they work? One thing I would hate to do is to reinstall all apps, which take a lot of time, Final Cut Studio, Photoshop CS3 and so on. I might be naive, but I am new to Mac. I know it would not work on windows.
Good point. You could download Disk Inventory X to see what is using all that space (which is substantial).
I lost a bunch, opened activity viewer, and dang I only have Safari open and my virtual memry file is over 43 GB WTF.
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A. Upgrade
B. 24" iMac 2.4 GHz, 3 GM RAM
C. Snappy...no degradation in performance at all
I noticed after running mdutil -a -i off that once mdworker quit that my performance was much better...it was taking like 40% of my CPU resources, and spotlight did not indicate that it was indexing
Fresh Install
20" iMac 2.16 C2D 260GB HD 1GB of Ram
Choppy video and constant 40% CPU usage, Excellent performance after disabling Spotlight indexing!
Fresh Install
20" iMac 2.16 C2D 260GB HD 1GB of Ram
Choppy video and constant 40% CPU usage, Excellent performance after disabling Spotlight indexing!
my ibook g4 1.33 Ghz, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hard drive, ATI 9550 clean install is running really fast, boots a little slower but apps open faster, and everything is smooth and quick for me
kind of funny since it is not a powerful machine
kind of funny since it is not a powerful machine
Does anyone else think that the need for 2GB RAM these days for an OS to be considered "decent" is a bit high??
I mean, until just last week, no computer I owned had more than 768MB RAM...
I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook here running Leopard.
The Macbook has 1.25 GB of Ram, the Macbook Pro has 1.5 GB.
Both clock in at 1,83ghz.
Both are faster than they were in Tiger, everything is smooth, spaces, stacks, coverflow... EVERYTHING.
If your install of Leopard is sluggish, your best bet is to call Apple because it's you and not Leopard.
The Macbook has 1.25 GB of Ram, the Macbook Pro has 1.5 GB.
Both clock in at 1,83ghz.
Both are faster than they were in Tiger, everything is smooth, spaces, stacks, coverflow... EVERYTHING.
If your install of Leopard is sluggish, your best bet is to call Apple because it's you and not Leopard.
1GB should be fine for Leopard, except if you are a heavy photoshop (etc)/aperture user.
Upgraded from 1 gig to 2.5 gig before installing leopard today so I can't really weigh in on whether it's helped....but I clean installed and it's smooth as silk on this imac (imac c2d 2.16/2.5 gigs/250 gig hd)