long delay between clicking and opening, please help!

[Breasts]

Hello. I have a newly purchased late 2011 macbook pro and I have been noticing a odd problem. There has been a varying lag between the when I click open a program and when it actually opens. Sometimes things open quickly as they should, but with other programs like eve online and freshly downloaded/installed things, it takes sometimes two to four minutes of seemingly nothing happening before finally the program will spring into life. It's like nothing i've ever seen on a windows computer. Is this something that is typical or do I have some kind of issue (this macbook was purchased refurbished from the apple store, I am still within my 14 day return period)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[simsaladimbamba]

That is not normal, even my 2004 iBook with a very slow HDD (50 MB/s or so) could open even heavy applications in less than a minute.

You can use the following applications to benchmark the speed of your HDD, to see, if it is the culprit:

• AJA System Test
• Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
• Xbench

Or you use Activity Monitor to see, what is going on when you click the application icon or start an application via any other method. I suppose you have Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installed?

Using Activity Monitor to show you CPU and RAM usage​

 

[Breasts]

That is not normal, even my 2004 iBook with a very slow HDD (50 MB/s or so) could open even heavy applications in less than a minute.

You can use the following applications to benchmark the speed of your HDD, to see, if it is the culprit:

• AJA System Test
• Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
• Xbench

Or you use Activity Monitor to see, what is going on when you click the application icon or start an application via any other method. I suppose you have Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installed?

Using Activity Monitor to show you CPU and RAM usage​

thank you for these helpful links. I will test it right away. Yes I am using 10.8 mountain lion.

 

[Breasts]

Here is the result for my memory, disk and graphics xbench test. Can you tell if it seems normal from this?

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=580764&doc2=1&setCookie=true

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Here is the result for my memory, disk and graphics xbench test. Can you tell if it seems normal from this?

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=580764&doc2=1&setCookie=true

To be honest, I can't see a disk test in those results.
Maybe try again or try AJA System Test.

 

[Breasts]

thank you for the comprehensive how to, here are the results of the disk test.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

thank you for the comprehensive how to, here are the results of the disk test.

It does not seem to be your HDD. What does Activity Monitor say during opening of applications? Does it also happen in another, even temporarily created, user account?