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just recieved my new MPB this morning, was fine when i first booted it up then after i restarted it it started lagging and running incredibly slow, even with no apps open
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What do you mean lagging?
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generally it is just really slow and unresponsive and thats actualy the exact reason i bought it coz my HP was doing the same thing -
Have you installed any software? If so, what?
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... maybe just a dud, try getting another one from apple.
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ok i restarted again and its fixed....phew
i plugged in the mighty mouse for the first time which i think may have caused it, is that normal? -
Well, sometimes the Mac just get overloaded...and to fix that, restart the Mac.
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thanks, i was getting so annoyed with it
but i absolutely love it now, cant wait til exams have finished so i can start using it properly! -
Wait'll it happens again, and you'll be annoyed at it, and then you restart and you'll love it again
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Oh, and while you're restarting, you'll marvel at the >30 second boot times and love it even more.
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dont you mean <30 seconds?
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isn't the initial lag caused by some sort of indexing program so that spotlight can work properly?
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I think I remember that happening when I first got my macbook -- the spotlight indexing. The only other times I've had issues of system wide slowdowns were when I used up enough of the ram that os x decided to go on a swapping frenzy.
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that's nice to hear
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Hey, Apple's marketing is very deceptive, I agree. OS X does not need a restart as often as Windows does (such as just to get a printer connected), but it does not mean they don't have to.
And plus, OS X restarts so quickly anyways. I can do a full restart in under a minute. -
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As for restarts, I don't restart my MBP often. I even did an esperiment on how long I could go without a restart. My criteria was that if I sensed ANY slowdown in my audio recording apps, then I would restart immediately.
I eventually restarted when fighting some network problem at home (turned out it wasn't the MBP, it was my WinXP desktop machine).
The only crashes I experienced were programs like VLC (I run the bleeding edge nightly build test version)
How long didi it run?
just over 44 days! Admittedly it was time for a restart, and the boot to longer than usual. -
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Had my MBP for 2 hours - Lagging Already
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by thekillercars, Oct 2, 2007.