Did you Clean install or upgrade ?
If you upgraded did you clean any apps or cache files before upgrading ?
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Lion slow to boot?
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Did you Clean install or upgrade ?
If you upgraded did you clean any apps or cache files before upgrading ?
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Macbook 2.4ghz with 2gb ram.
About 40 seconds to boot from pressing the power button.
That's around 10 seconds longer than Snow Leopard.
4 seconds to shutdown, thats about 2 seconds quicker than Snow Leopard.
Can't say I'm worried, I used to use Windows Vista
About 40 seconds to boot from pressing the power button.
That's around 10 seconds longer than Snow Leopard.
4 seconds to shutdown, thats about 2 seconds quicker than Snow Leopard.
Can't say I'm worried, I used to use Windows Vista
Lot slower boot/shutdown. it used to boot/shutdown with in 10 sec. now it takes more than 30 sec to boot and also the when i click my login, it takes more than 5 secs to get the password tab. but other than that i have not noticed any significant slow down with apps. at least with native apps like safari, iTunes, terminal..etc .. seems to be fast and smooth and other apps like parallels, MS-office seems to be smooth.
Mine was very slow with Lion as update to SL; don't know what it was but a fresh install made all the difference. Night and day ...... instant shutdown and fast boot. (2010 MBA w/ 4G)
Thanks for sharing your success !!!
For people unhappy with the speed backup with time machine / carbon copy cloner / super duper and then format your main hard drive and reinstall a fresh copy of Lion !
Then either use migration assistant to pull all your data back over or reinstall manually all the apps and data you actually need and use and leave the unwanted crap off your drive.
Each time a new Operating System comes out this is an awesome time to spring clean and install a fresh copy of the new OS and leave all the bits left over from apps you have since stopped using and deleted off your drive !
Also check how much hard drive space you have left as after installing Lion and the Recovery Partition may have left too small space for your system to run at full speed !
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I just stopwatched restart .... with 4 desktops; Chrome and 6 tabs, See Financial, iCal, Goodsync, and Skype running .....
Shutdown was 1 sec and completed reboot 22 sec.
Prior to clean install Lion was taking over 10 sec just to shutdown.
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How do you do a clean install?
I thought it was only available via upgrade.
Can you point me in the right direction please.
Thanks.
I guess count me in as one of the lucky ones. Mine is definitely booting almost 3 times faster than it did with Snow Leopard. Did not do a clean install, just upgraded on my late 2008 2.8GHz C2D Macbook Pro, 4GB 1067MHz DDR3 Ram, 500GB 7200 rpm HD.
Very fast boot up and shutdown times. I was initially worried that running Lion in general would be sluggish, but it's running much smoother and faster than Snow Leopard ever did for me. Very impressed so far! And the only Rosetta app I had that wouldn't run was Propellerheads' Recycle, but Propellerheads were on it; the day Lion was released they sent an email saying they've got a beta that will work in Lion and the next day it was available (wish all the third party companies cared like that!) so, very happy with the overall experience thus far.
Very fast boot up and shutdown times. I was initially worried that running Lion in general would be sluggish, but it's running much smoother and faster than Snow Leopard ever did for me. Very impressed so far! And the only Rosetta app I had that wouldn't run was Propellerheads' Recycle, but Propellerheads were on it; the day Lion was released they sent an email saying they've got a beta that will work in Lion and the next day it was available (wish all the third party companies cared like that!) so, very happy with the overall experience thus far.
You have to make a boot disk; rather than using a DVD or thumb drive I just made a 6GB partition on a portable (Passport) USB drive.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1189888/
EVEN BETTER directions:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html
That's great, I've no problem with how Lion is running as an upgrade but a clean fresh install would be nice.
Thanks for the links.
Sounds like doing a good clean install is a trick. Apple will polish the system performance with updates.
The best ever update for boot speed relative to the previous update was Tiger 10.4.11. The boot time went from reasonably good (10.4.10) to being really snappy in 10.4.11. I booted into it today on my late 2006 Mac Pro and Tiger boots faster than the leopards and Lion which have their own drives on the same Mac.
The best ever update for boot speed relative to the previous update was Tiger 10.4.11. The boot time went from reasonably good (10.4.10) to being really snappy in 10.4.11. I booted into it today on my late 2006 Mac Pro and Tiger boots faster than the leopards and Lion which have their own drives on the same Mac.
my install was a fresh install (always done it this way, system and personal files are seperate. if the system goes down, i am back up and running in less than an hour...although i dont back up my personal data, i REALLY should. i am building a home server for all my data and backups sometime next year, so until then i am rolling the dice. although i have used a computer since 1990, and didnt start backing things up until jan '10 when i bought my first mac). i did not use any instructions, so what i did may be different. this is exactly what i did, in this order...
1. made bootable clone with carbon copy cloner ( i do this every month anyway)
2. booted to bootable clone (optibay in late 09 macbook, using factory 250GB 5400 rpm drive for data, 120GB owc ssd for system)
3. completely erased system ssd drive, followed by "erase free space"
4. installed lion from DVD (i made the dvd since i always do a clean install)
5. lion booted, setup, played around for about 3 mins before noticing my audio was very quiet (hit volume buttons and it said volume was max, but had a circle with a line through it)
6. rebooted thinking the audio thing was a freak mistake, problem persisted
7. repaired permissions after searching for an answer, there was about 12 permissions that needed repairing.
8. still no luck, some more searching, found plugging in headphones for a few seconds made the volume work normal until reboot. i can deal with that for now.
and the whole time it was FAST. after the initial install, i thought something went wrong because i was reading a magazine while i waited for it to install. i noticed the computer reboot, and thought ok, i have a few seconds, i will finish this paragraph. as soon as i looked back to my magazine, the setup was up. i thought maybe it was just because there was nothing to load on initial setup. after rebooting to try to fix audio, i realized it booted to the login screen FAST. i set it up to automatically log in, and from pressing the power button to a usable desktop is about 12 seconds
edit: after reading some other posts, it seems like the clean install is the way to go.
1. made bootable clone with carbon copy cloner ( i do this every month anyway)
2. booted to bootable clone (optibay in late 09 macbook, using factory 250GB 5400 rpm drive for data, 120GB owc ssd for system)
3. completely erased system ssd drive, followed by "erase free space"
4. installed lion from DVD (i made the dvd since i always do a clean install)
5. lion booted, setup, played around for about 3 mins before noticing my audio was very quiet (hit volume buttons and it said volume was max, but had a circle with a line through it)
6. rebooted thinking the audio thing was a freak mistake, problem persisted
7. repaired permissions after searching for an answer, there was about 12 permissions that needed repairing.
8. still no luck, some more searching, found plugging in headphones for a few seconds made the volume work normal until reboot. i can deal with that for now.
and the whole time it was FAST. after the initial install, i thought something went wrong because i was reading a magazine while i waited for it to install. i noticed the computer reboot, and thought ok, i have a few seconds, i will finish this paragraph. as soon as i looked back to my magazine, the setup was up. i thought maybe it was just because there was nothing to load on initial setup. after rebooting to try to fix audio, i realized it booted to the login screen FAST. i set it up to automatically log in, and from pressing the power button to a usable desktop is about 12 seconds
edit: after reading some other posts, it seems like the clean install is the way to go.
Here is my question. I did a clean install of SL before I installed Lion. Did that accomplish the same thing as doing a clean Lion install, or does it need to be a true reinstall on a empty disk? My boot is quite slow.
My own account: my iMac remains speedy in both booting and shutting down, but my MacBook Pro was a bit slow in both. Every time I shut down my MBP I saw a grey screen with that rotating circle, which I found odd.
So I made a Lion bootdisk, formatted the MBP, did a clean install, and now everything is very speedy.
So apparently, a clean install can do wonders Though of course, your mileage may vary
So I made a Lion bootdisk, formatted the MBP, did a clean install, and now everything is very speedy.
So apparently, a clean install can do wonders
Though of course, your mileage may vary inevitable
I think a slower boot is going to be inevitable with Lion, there are just a number of other items that will load, check at boot, reload prior to desktop presentment, etc. It is very much like vista, fast to desktop, but things aren't going to be running fully for a bit longer. I don't think an optimization is going to reduce LION boot times to the same as under Snow Leopard
I think a slower boot is going to be inevitable with Lion, there are just a number of other items that will load, check at boot, reload prior to desktop presentment, etc. It is very much like vista, fast to desktop, but things aren't going to be running fully for a bit longer. I don't think an optimization is going to reduce LION boot times to the same as under Snow Leopard
I'd like to hear from anyone with a formatted clean install that has a slower boot; there is no doubt that my MBA boots faster with Lion than SL whatever is going on
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I was thinking this too at one stage and wondering about how many items were running at startup etc but this thought was soon forgotten as people who performed a clean install said the issue was solved !
Have you read all the previous posts ??? No? Because the issue has been solved.
Do a clean install from a freshly formatted hard drive either from a dvdr or a usb key or external hard drive and enjoy a lightling fast lion!
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Installing Lion over a fresh install of Snow Leopard is better than simply upgrading and bringing any problems and junk over with you but it's still not going to be 100% as good as a Clean Install of Lion !
If your system works great and startup / shutdown are fast you don't need to do anything but if you are experiencing delays then perform a Clean Install.
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I was getting 40 second boot times in a MacBook Air, which was ridiculous. I looked at the system log (use the Console program) and found it was spending most of the time dealing with the network login (I'm using managed accounts on a Snow Leopard Server). As soon as I turned off the management, boot time became as fast as it was before.
It seems to be having issues mounting remote volumes.
It seems to be having issues mounting remote volumes.
Yep. This is a known bug which is discussed at length over in the apple forums !
Folks you can see what Lion is waiting for by pressing cmd-v during the start-up chime. This will give a verbose log output to the screen during the boot process. Or, go to /var/logs/kernel.log and check it to see where a long delay is.
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