Speed up OSX Lion tips
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- mirrorball
I'm finding MAC OSX Lion slower than Snow Leopard.
Post your tips here to help speed it and your Design Apps, CS5 etc... up.
- ernexbcn0
I noticed that on my 4 years old iMac. I can't do much about it because I already max its ram when I bought it (4GB).
- graham0
Check out the app called FreeMemory in the appstore, frees up some RAM
- animatedgif0
^
Probably snake oil and just clears inactive ram.Lots of people really don't understand how the memory works in OS X and they start whining "I HAVE NO MEMORY" without realising Inactive is actually cached memory that can be quickly reused if need be or can be freed if something else needs it.
If anything this will slow down Lion even more till everything is recached.
- to clear up inactive memory i just verify permissions (have to do it all the time)jaylarson
- You DON'T have to do this, that's the point. Look up what inactive memory actually isanimatedgif
- Chimp0
I was thinking of installing Lion on my 2 year old MacBook Pro. Do you think its a good idea?
- mirrorball0
I was actually thinking of downgrading my macbook pro to snow leopard because I can never close down any of the cs5 apps without them having to be force quit every time
- byDefault000
I've experienced the same thing... also hate 'Save Version' & 'open all windows at login'
- mirrorball0
Any hacks for the terminal to kill, launchpad, dashboard and the zooming of opening windows and files?
- mirrorball0
I've noticed that turning off the Application frame in the Adobe CS apps saves memory.
- Application Frame is the worst fucking thing adobe has ever doneanimatedgif
- Actually, it is the best thing they did. For years Windows version was so much better than Mac because of it.shaft
- Application frame suckxemphor
- it doesn't work when you have the whole application allocated to the one desktopmirrorball
- Hombre_Lobo0
I reckon osx lion would be a lot quicker if you installed windows 7.
give that a shot.
- animatedgif0
Any hacks for the terminal to kill:
launchpad - Just drag it out of the dock, you'll never see it againdashboard - Sys Prefs > Mission Control > Show Dashboard as a space
zooming of opening windows and files - defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabl... -bool NO
^ You'll need to relaunch apps for this to work on them.- cheers, I'd like to kill launchpad completly so it isn't taking up memory, its slow as it ismirrorball
- mirrorball0
any background processes going on in Lion that can be killed completely to save on memory and processor access which won't send the whole system down with it?
- animatedgif0
^ how much RAM do you have? Keep in mind that inactive memory is actually free.
- mightyj0
If you are running adobe CS apps then i would suggest 8 gb of ram if you don't have it already. I just bought a set for my macbook pro from www.crucial.com. I also noticed that safari sucks up ram with web process and plugin process. If this is the case then I'd use chrome. Also install "istat menu" to see where all your ram is going and processor hits.
- dMullins0
I am not a fanboy, but I've never had a problem with my Mac hardware or software until LION. Since LION, I have had nothing but performance issues and all kinds of funky glitches, FINDER force quits, programs crashing, and general performance malaise, etc. With a full 8GB of RAM in both of my systems, I have been meaning to drop back down to Snow Leopard, just haven't had the time.
Screw Lion.
- have you tried a clean install? I have Lion and do not have any of these issues. Maybe a clean install will clear things up.mightyj
- Maybe I should give that a try. I installed from Snow Leopard, so maybe there are some issues.dMullins
- The joke being the average user can't do a clean Lion install.animatedgif
- Raniator0
Add as much RAM as you can, but only buy from Apple – they are BY FAR the cheapest.
- fugged0
I did a clean install of Lion on a 3 y/o MBP and it runs great. (other than a failing hard drive, but that isn't related to Lion obviously.)
- genfourth0
I have no problems with lion
- mirrorball0
I was on one site that said it was possible to install 16gb of ram into the new MacBook Pro's anybody here done that?
I have the new 15" MacBook Pro and want to upgrade from 4gb - 8gb, very cheap at £40 but if I can go all out and install 16gb all the better