Snow Leopard make anyone elses Mac run SLOWER? help?

[emericana]

Put snow leopard on my 15" MacBook Pro 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2ghz ram, 128mb video ram computer (purchased in late 2007 right after Leopard came out). The computer was running great on Leopard, no hitches whatsoever. Put snow leopard on it, expecting to experience performance boosts, cool new features (LOL), and just all in all a more stable computer. Got none of these.

Everything on the computer runs slower than before. Noticeably. Battery life is significantly less than before as well. Wtf? Any help? Please.

Anyone else experience these same issues on their Macbook?

 

[caruso81]

Everything on the computer runs slower than before. Noticeably. Battery life is significantly less than before as well. Wtf? Any help? Please.

Anyone else experience these same issues on their Macbook?

Absolutely. Random and frequent pauses as the rainbow wheel of death spins. I'm actually guessing that it is Rosetta trying to run apps that are just not very compatible.

 

[Mugwumper]

Not funny . . . :^(

Put snow leopard on my 15" MacBook Pro 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2ghz ram, 128mb video ram computer (purchased in late 2007 right after Leopard came out). The computer was running great on Leopard, no hitches whatsoever. Put snow leopard on it, expecting to experience performance boosts, cool new features (LOL), and just all in all a more stable computer. Got none of these.

Everything on the computer runs slower than before. Noticeably. Battery life is significantly less than before as well. Wtf? Any help? Please.

Anyone else experience these same issues on their Macbook?

Yes - it's only been a few hours since I updated, but overall, apps seem to
be slower to start. I had a number of Mail issues initially, but those have
been resolved.

On the plus side, Time Machine does seem to be faster, and I like the
progress bar as it "calculates" how much needs to backed up.

And a really big "thank you" for MS and Apple to have finally figured
out how to get Office 2008 and Spaces to coexist peacefully.

If "caruso81" is correct about Rosetta being the culprit, how do we turn it
off or uninstall it? I know of 2 apps (Quicken 2007 !!!) that need it, but
maybe I can live without them to get the speed boost we've hoped for.

Or, do we need to reboot a few times?

Not what I expected . . . :^(

 

[snickers15]

Put snow leopard on my 15" MacBook Pro 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2ghz ram, 128mb video ram computer (purchased in late 2007 right after Leopard came out). The computer was running great on Leopard, no hitches whatsoever. Put snow leopard on it, expecting to experience performance boosts, cool new features (LOL), and just all in all a more stable computer. Got none of these.

Everything on the computer runs slower than before. Noticeably. Battery life is significantly less than before as well. Wtf? Any help? Please.

Anyone else experience these same issues on their Macbook?

Yeah my new macmini used to be fast and evrything worked great untill snow panter came out! I guess i wanted more and faster things running, which was not nessesarily needed! big mistake cause some of the applications are not working anymore like my TRAKTOR 3 and games are really slower to! i had to buy an extra RAM memory for 100 euros dammit!!! well thats a TIP for the next buyer: THINK FIRST before buying Sleopard!!!
even to search things at finder is slow!!!
Any improvement was an extra 7G!
I hope they reading this, so they can start work on better updates! if they not... where can i tell them that snow leopard sucks?
Grz

 

[harcosparky]

This discussion comes up in other threads.

Some have reported great success using a program to clean Snow Leopard caches, repair permissions, optimize files, optimize ram.

I don't recall the exact location of the download of this program ... but it is on Apple somewhere.
I think you can get it here as well ....

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner

http://www.northernsoftworks.com/


I used it and it improved things immensely for me ....

Under the following tabs I selected the items shown below ...

MAINTAIN
<> Repair Permissions
<> Run Maintenance Scripts
<> Clean System Log Archive

OPTIMIZE
<> Tune For Broadband

<> Optimize Files
<> Optimize RAM

CACHES
( ) Light Cleaning
( ) Clean Local Cache



I hope this helps you.

FWIW - I have not seen a beach ball since doing this !!!

 

[RiverFox]

I'm not paying $15 for an app I can get for free that does the same thing and more.
Meh.