WeegieMac
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See, I'd happily take that explanation if they were always choppy.
However, on first boot and up until sleep mode kicks in and I reawaken my iMac, they're absolutely fine.
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See, I'd happily take that explanation if they were always choppy.
However, on first boot and up until sleep mode kicks in and I reawaken my iMac, they're absolutely fine.
PurrBall
macrumors 65816
Probably because you're using some sort of Tiger/Panther theme.
Winni
macrumors 68040
But you do know that the GM and the release version are the exact same software? In the industry, a GM is the version to goes to production and sale.
Well if we assume that LTD has access to the GM, he might just want to get a retail version because he wants to spend his money. Perhaps he doesnt want to risk the notion of a second GM.
I dont know if LTD has developer access to begin with though. He might not be a paid developer.
Chairman Plow
macrumors regular
Mine as well.
harrisondavies
macrumors 6502
Interestingly I have performed a clean install and pretty much all the issues seem to have disappeared, goes SL had issues. Although lagging anim does occur still on time machine.
Jerome Morrow
macrumors 6502a
I'm playing with my a copy of my actual Snow Leopard system that was just upgraded to Lion few hours ago.
The problem is for some reason kernel boots into 32 bit mode, i found one 32 bit kext 'varaaudio.kext' from Scree Flow which i no longer use. So i deleted that but kernel is still 32 bit. All extensions are 64 bit now.
What else is there that i can try?
The problem is for some reason kernel boots into 32 bit mode, i found one 32 bit kext 'varaaudio.kext' from Scree Flow which i no longer use. So i deleted that but kernel is still 32 bit. All extensions are 64 bit now.
What else is there that i can try?
Jerome Morrow
macrumors 6502a
450 MB for a browser is pretty normal.
WeegieMac
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It was never that high in Snow Leopard, although Safari Web Content wasn't present in Snow Leopard, which would explain why.
But what in God's name is going on with the Virtual Memory ... 160 odd GIGABYTE!?!
WeegieMac
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And amid all the questions, from use so far, it's still faster than Snow Leopard.
You don't think that would be confusing? It's easier to have one global scrolling option for all input devices.
Phil A.
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VM Size is a pretty meaningless reading in OS X as a program can request a huge slice of virtual memory, but if it doesn't use it it never gets allocated.
The larger number is probably just caused by some processes requesting bigger VM pools - it doesn't mean more memory is being used though, just that more memory can potentially be used.
Sankersizzle
macrumors 6502a
Typing proper words makes you old?
It does when you oppress others who don't. It's a very "get off my lawn, you damn kids" philosophy.
My Safari is currently eating 800MB of RAM from my MacBook
. I regularly see it go past 1GB, so if I top out around 300MB in Lion like you are, I'm OK with that!
*LTD*
macrumors G4
It does when you oppress others who don't. It's a very "get off my lawn, you damn kids" philosophy.
My Safari is currently eating 800MB of RAM from my MacBook
Well mine reads it's using 94.8 MB of Real Mem. I've only got two windows open, though, browsing forums.
I've got 6GB Ram installed on my early 08 MBP 15-inch 2.4 GHz.
KnightWRX
macrumors Pentium
Virtual memory is not what you think it is. Virtual memory is basically the OSes' memory addressing space and includes amongst other things swap space, system RAM, video RAM, CPU hardware registers, different controller hardware registers, the GPU's hardware registers and tons of other things.
S3rgin
macrumors newbie
Honestly,
I don't believe this one will be the release build.
I mean don't take me wrong, this thing is fast and stable. No kernel panics or slowdowns for that matter.
I did a clean install and the issues I'm having are all related to multi touch.
First bug is related to three finger drag. Every time I restart it deselects that option.
Second bug is related to four finger app expose. Unless I am doing something wrong, the first time I use it, it shows me all the apps open, plus a small icon of the apps that I have minimized. When I try to do it for the second time, it kind of put the app I'm using in evidence.
One thing that I noticed is that when you lock your screen and you have to type your password to go back to the desktop, the new lock screen is kind of ugly to be honest. It does not feel right. I know this is something minor, but come on, we are talking about MacOS which is known to be a good looking piece of software.
Taking those few grips aside, definitely is going to be day-one buying.
I don't believe this one will be the release build.
I mean don't take me wrong, this thing is fast and stable. No kernel panics or slowdowns for that matter.
I did a clean install and the issues I'm having are all related to multi touch.
First bug is related to three finger drag. Every time I restart it deselects that option.
Second bug is related to four finger app expose. Unless I am doing something wrong, the first time I use it, it shows me all the apps open, plus a small icon of the apps that I have minimized. When I try to do it for the second time, it kind of put the app I'm using in evidence.
One thing that I noticed is that when you lock your screen and you have to type your password to go back to the desktop, the new lock screen is kind of ugly to be honest. It does not feel right. I know this is something minor, but come on, we are talking about MacOS which is known to be a good looking piece of software.
Taking those few grips aside, definitely is going to be day-one buying.
These new Lion technologies sound incredible to me, magical even. I cannot wait to unlock the full potential of my house of Macs by installing OS X Lion onto each and every one of them. Hey Redmond, time to stage your Windows funeral because Apple has just killed your flagship product stone dead.
We're winning!!! We're really winning this time!!!!
Good god. You do realize that you did zero development on Lion? So saying "we" is a little silly. Just try to calm down.
True! And also, there is something very wrong if in order to get Lion to work properly and bug-free you have to perform a clean install of it which is exactly the contrary of what Apple wants costumers to do!!!
I think they'll release an update to GM via software update probably towards the end of this week/beginning of next week, and then publish the updated version to the App Store.
I know lots of people had issues with 10.6.0, but I updated to SL the day it came out and never experienced anything abnormal: it was faster than Leopard and everything worked fine without a clean install.
What's annoying about this is the problems which pop-up only in specific configurations. I mean, the purpose of owning a Mac is that you get an OS that's programmed for the company's own hardware, so they SHOULD know which machines they're programming for, and the end-user gets an OS that's been created to fit their machine and work perfectly with it, without any issues whatsoever. But with Lion, it seems like Apple is releasing a Windows... Programming it in one configuration and crossing their fingers that it will work on other machines.
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Indeed it's not ready yet. But I don't want to discourage any kind customers from helping to beta test so I can install it on my production machines around the time of 10.7.2.
We need people to start upgrading so more software developers are pressured to get their apps running properly in Lion.