Macbook pro 15" speed allright?

[MacMarf]

So I just got the new 15inch highend macbook pro, and was wondering if the speed is normal. I get beachballs when launching Illustrator CS5, with photoshop and safari already open and was wondering if that's normal? I expected it to launch the programs a bit faster aswell. Any way to test if the speed is normal? Its faster than my old laptop, though. Lots of time left which I dont know what to do with

 

[simsaladimbamba]

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Have a look at Activity Monitor (Applications / Utilities /) and select All Processes and sort by CPU to see what the culprit may be.
Also check the "System Memory" tab to see what your "Page ins:", "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" are.

image below uses sorting by CPU as an example

Further reading:

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Making The Most of Activity Monitor
What Is Activity Monitor (or How to Take Your Mac's Pulse)​

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Btw, the HDD is the slowest part of your MBP, though even with a faster CPU and GPU, applications don't load that much faster, as they have to be read from the HDD and then copied into the RAM anyway.

 

[w00t951]

Adobe programs give me beachballs, but only on a cold launch. You shouldn't be getting much lag with Safari or other programs though. You should do a complete reboot, then wait 30 seconds before trying to launch any apps. By then OS X will have loaded services and everything will seem much faster.