Thanks for the replies, just me then. It's not exactly zippy on my new imac i7 either. I think i'll do a fresh install on the mbp and see how we go from there It flew along with Snow Leopard on it so unless there was a hardware / ram fail at the exact time I installed Lion I'd say it's the OS.
Thanks Simon On 24 Aug 2011, at 14:41, Tony Crooks wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2011, at 13:28, Simon Atkinson wrote: > >> I'm just putting this out there to see if it's just me or not. >> Since installing Lion (via the app store) on my Macbook Pro 2.4ghz Intel >> core 2 duo, 4gb (667) it is running like a dog. >> Exposure and Spaces take ages to affect, getting the screen saver to let me >> in again can take up to 30 seconds (Itunes screen saver) >> Opening documents is sometimes extremely slow as is tabbing between open >> programs. >> The fan is almost always >> I feel like I've gone back to working with V*sta on a cheap pc. >> > > I've had Lion running on a white MacBook for several weeks and its been as if > it has had viagra - better performance than it ever had with Snow Leopard. > Could you have a dodgy RAM problem as that impacts performance? > > Our MacBook fan has been especially quiet with Lion - had to check it was > working (it is). Spins up a bit with iMovie ut not excessively so. > -- > Tony Crooks > ---------------------------------- > 53 Mendip Avenue • Eastbourne • BN23 8HP > Mob: 07590508079 > Tel: 01323-460789 > <mailto: [email protected]> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
