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MBP running like crap after upgrading to Lion

Stang68

Stang68

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Hey everyone,

So I upgraded to Lion when it was released and everything installed fine, no problems. But since installation, everything has just been slower, or choppy, etc. Garageband looks like it's about to explode when being used and just everyday use has suffered. Is it possible it was a bad install of Lion? How would I go about re-installing Lion without wiping everything? Make a recent Time Machine backup and then go from there?

Thanks!
 
FYI, snow leopards are much more agile than lions IRL too.

Just a thought..
 
You already answered your ?, do a clean install and do not restore from backup. Do you have at least 4gb of ram?
 
Do a clean install or downgrade to Snow Leopard until Apple patch Lion into stability.
 
I too missed Snow Leopard after I upgraded to Lion but 10.7.2 has really improved things for me.

I would do the following:

1. Upgrade to 8Gb of ram. For $45.00 you can get 8 GB from NewEgg. This will always make your Mac happier.

2. Do a fresh clean install. I have NOT done this but I have a colleague who had the same complaints as I did with Lion. He did a full backup and then did a fresh clean install for Lion. It appears to help a great deal with some of the problems with Lion.

3. You can always go back to SL if you don't find Lion as good as SL.

Personally, I feel that SL with all the latest patches was the best OS X version I've ever used. It was quick, stable, fast, and great on battery life. I did upgrade to 8 GB which I think just make OS X even happier to have more memory.

Anyway, good luck!

-P
 
Thanks for the helpful comments, guys. :)

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jenzjen said:
You already answered your ?, do a clean install and do not restore from backup. Do you have at least 4gb of ram?
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DON'T restore from Time Machine? I mean, I'd like to do that since it makes everything easier, but you think that would just bring back whatever is messing with my system?

Thanks.
 
Stang68 said:
DON'T restore from Time Machine? I mean, I'd like to do that since it makes everything easier, but you think that would just bring back whatever is messing with my system?
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Right, if there's an issue somewhere in your software, you'd be putting it right back.
 
Lion sucks it doesn't matter clean install or no clean install.

Go back to Snow Leopard like I did and be happy.
 
Do a clean install and manually migrate your files.

After I did that Lion was faster than snow leopard.
 
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