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Re: [OS X] How to get rid of Slow Mac Lion Slow Mac OS X 10.7 Well, several things.
1. Thinkdiff has a good idea about upgrading RAM.
Here are some other thoughts:
2. Disable the local time machine backups (also called snapshots). Lion saves any file changes to your local drive so you can use Time Machine even if your external drive isn't connected. While they claim it doesn't slow things down, it might very well, especially when working on a large file. To disable local backups, do this:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
3. Secondly, if you feel comfortable about it, you could also disable the sleep image. (Sleep image is needed for when your battery goes dead)
I do get the feeling that both those things go bog the machine down a little, especially when working on large files.
4. You may also want to check your activity monitor for any rogue program that might be taking up too much CPU usage. I had an issue with a program once that basically was running a background service that added 10℃ to my system temp and spinning the HD constantly. Promptly removed, issue solved.
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| May be u are right. But if u look at »www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html its recommended by Apple it self that 2GB RAM is sufficient for Mac Lion.
Do you have any other solution please. Please mind the investment part of suggestion  |
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 lunarPlexusNothin' Up Muh SleevePremium
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Chicago, IL | said by stevenros:May be u are right. But if u look at »www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html its recommended by Apple it self that 2GB RAM is sufficient for Mac Lion.
Do you have any other solution please. Please mind the investment part of suggestion
Well, it is "sufficient" in that your system does run, right? You say you are editing large media files. That is generally a use case where more RAM is indicated. 2 gigs of RAM, or even 4, is not going to set you back all that much. |
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 myosh
join:2001-05-03
Cupertino, CA | reply to stevenros
said by stevenros:May be u are right. But if u look at »www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html its recommended by Apple it self that 2GB RAM is sufficient for Mac Lion.
Do you have any other solution please. Please mind the investment part of suggestion
I'm surprised no one else has suggested this... how about going back to Snow Leopard (10.6)? This would be especially true if things ran fine under 10.6 and you don't want to pony up the $60 for an 8 GB memory upgrade. |
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You need minimum of 4 GB RAM, and 8GB would set you free. It cured my problem with my 2011 i7 MBP slowing down after rendering DVDs of iMovies. |
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| said by modelamac:You need minimum of 4 GB RAM, and 8GB would set you free. It cured my problem with my 2011 i7 MBP slowing down after rendering DVDs of iMovies.
ADDENDUM:
I just realized that in the cost of buying to RAM you possibly might be looking at Apple's prices for their RAM. That RAM is way more expensive than Mac compatible quality RAM.
RAM from those reputable vendors is way cheaper than Apple's. |
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