My Mac is from August of 2011. I have used it heavily ever since, though mostly in Windows for the first year. There is a Mac Mini downstairs that is from 2007, and it is still going strong. In fact, interns of launching apps, it is faster than my Mavericks machine. This has been going on since I installed Mavericks, not a day before, and that was back in November. Hopefully, if my hard drive were going to kick the bucket, it would have done so by now.
It's interesting that slow-to-launch apps is a problem on others' systems as well. Here's hoping that 10.9.2 will fix this problem. -- Have a great day, Alex [email protected] On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > I hate to be a wet blanket, but this is an honest question. How old is your > hard drive? My Mac mini became very laggy and choppy for about two weeks > before the hard drive completely went, and I had to have it replaced. You > might do a disc check and see if things are going ok with it. If there are > problems, you might try a disc repair. > > as for apps opening slowly, I think this is a bug with Mavericks, but it > doesn't happen with all users. I have this issue myself, and so do others > running various Mac desktops. > > HtH, > Teresa > > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too > dark to read."--Groucho Marx > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> First, some comments on how things have been after my complete re-install >> Sunday. I waited until now because I was copying data back from Time >> Machine, letting Box and Dropbox sync their data with my hard drive, setting >> up my first-ever Windows VM and having that sync with my cloud services, and >> letting Spotlight index everything. >> >> My Mac, I'm very sad to say, feels no faster. Apps still take a while to >> open, or open immediately but are busy for a while. Mail messages usually >> open immediately, but some can still take a long time (plaintext ones, so >> it's not an html rendering thing). VO has hardly bee choppy so far, so >> that's something, but nothing says that problem can't come back - it was >> never a constant issue in the first place, so it may well return soon. >> >> I am at a loss. I looked at my Activity Monitor, and saw that Mail had >> written 1.07gb of data, the largest amount written as far as I can tell. >> That isn't surprising, though, as that was likely when it was pulling all my >> mail for the first time since the re-install. All other apps seem normal, so >> there appears to be no excessive data usage. Even before the update, after I >> dumped Soundflower, nothing was making excessive use of the CPU, so that was >> not the problem. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Short of >> a new machine or downgrading to 10.8, I am out of ideas. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
