Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Word of the day: Patience

Westside guy

Westside guy

macrumors 604
Original poster
I see a fair number of people complaining about Mavericks' speed, so I'm throwing my $0.02 in (why not, everyone else is!).

I updated my early 2011 13" MacBook Pro (4 GB RAM) to Mavericks, and for the first hour or so... what a dog! It was just unbelievably, painfully, slow. But, eventually, all the background re-indexing and compression finished - now it's running fine.

Some people are responding to complainers with a knee-jerk "you should always do a clean install". Honestly, you should almost never have to do that with any modern OS under normal circumstances; but saying that seems to be the latest iteration of sage advice like "rebuild your desktop" or "repair permissions". 😀

Just upgrade to Mavericks, be patient, and everything will likely be fine.
 
Great advice. So far so good for me. I've installed in on my MBP and my wife's MBA and both were flawless. I hope everyone else has the same good experience I have.
 
One of the cool new tricks in Mavericks is that when you click on the battery icon in the menu bar, it shows you a list of Apps Using Significant Energy. Not surprisingly, Spotlight was in that list for about the first 2 hours. As soon as it disappeared from the list (likely because it had completed indexing), everything smoothed out and is now lightning fast.
 
Patriot24 said:
One of the cool new tricks in Mavericks is that when you click on the battery icon in the menu bar, it shows you a list of Apps Using Significant Energy. Not surprisingly, Spotlight was in that list for about the first 2 hours. As soon as it disappeared from the list (likely because it had completed indexing), everything smoothed out and is now lightning fast.
Click to expand...


mine lists google chorme.


should i get rid of it?
 
I upgraded today and everything was lagging. Had to reset CS6 and other programs. once that was done and everything initialized I have been running flawlessly. The only issue I having was my preview monitor had bad resolution. For some reason Mavericks wouldn't show the right one. A quick install of SwitchRes fixed that issue. Run the install (I upgraded) and it's be perfectly stable like tiger used to be.
 
DaReal_Dionysus said:
I upgraded today and everything was lagging. Had to reset CS6 and other programs. once that was done and everything initialized I have been running flawlessly. The only issue I having was my preview monitor had bad resolution. For some reason Mavericks wouldn't show the right one. A quick install of SwitchRes fixed that issue. Run the install (I upgraded) and it's be perfectly stable like tiger used to be.
Click to expand...


what do you mean by "resetting cs6?"

i too have photoshop cs6 - how does "resetting" it help? and how did you do it?
 
Troneas said:
what do you mean by "resetting cs6?"

i too have photoshop cs6 - how does "resetting" it help? and how did you do it?
Click to expand...

Troneas,

If you have a workspace already setup and the workspace uses multiple monitors, CS 6 has a problem at first setting that up. So hold down alt, cmd and shift when you launch photoshop and it will ask if you would like to reset preferences, select yes. Now photoshop will launch in in the default workspace and and you can reset your workspace then. The next time you launch it should work find. It does take a few minutes to initialize but then it's all good to. Loads a little show but is filly function and renders fine.

If you have any further issues let me know, i will do my best to assist.

Dionysus
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back