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Apple Mail vs Thunderbird performance
I'm running Apple Mail 5.3 and Thunderbird 17.0.4 on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5. The system I'm running those apps it's an iMac with 3Gb of RAM and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
I run both applications at the ...
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Safari “Find” is slow
Safari is fast at everything, except "Find". When I hit command-F, I get the beachball for 5 to 25 seconds (and then the Find bar appears as normal and everything's good again).
I have plenty of ...
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Process “ubd” high CPU usage
I noticed my MBP got really slow, which must be strange with SSD and 8GB of RAM.
So I opened the Activity Monitor to discover a process called ubd keeps its CPU usage very high, about 120% most of ...
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Any better way to purge the inactive memory?
Running purge command in the terminal to free the inactive memory isn't really what I think about Apple.
Lion isn't doing a great at all when it comes to free the inactive memory.
Free memory is ...
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What has changed Finder list view in Lion to make “Calculate all sizes” exponentially faster?
Since way before Mac OS X came on the scene, we have been able to ask the Finder to Calculate all sizes in order to determine the sum total of readable file size space contained in each folder for the ...
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How would enabling FileVault alter my system and TM performance?
What are the pros and cons, performance-wise, of enabling and using FileVault? Is there any at all, or does it slow a computer down significantly or on the contrary speed it up? Also, what effect will ...
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How can I fix Firefox's jagged scrolling on Lion?
I noticed that scrolling in Firefox on Lion is not very pleasant experience.
Is there a way to optimize it for better performance?
I tried smooth scrolling setting - but it didn't do anything.
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MacBook Air mid 2011 Geekbench results too low
My MacBook Air from mid 2011 recently only scores about ~1800 on geekbench vs 5300+ that it was before. I'm starting the benchmarking right after reboot, and the CPU seems initially calm. Any points?
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OWC SSD freezes regularly
I installed a new 115GB SSD with a clean lion install in my MacBook pro (2010) with the data doubler containing my old seagate hdd.
The install took over five hours, which made me pretty suspicious ...
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How about Parallels 7's Lion support especially in graphics performance?
I heard that Parallels 6 lack of GPU acceleration with Lion guest. So it's very slow. How about this on Parallels 7?
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How much does Hardware Growler affect performance?
I'm interested in knowing how much Hardware Growler affects performance.
My MacBook's performance at some of point in time became terrible and I could not figure out the reason. The Beachball of ...
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1answer
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Hard disk performance drastically declined after OS X Lion upgrade
After upgrading to Lion (10.7.1) a while ago I'm currently faced with a very poor performance of my system. It's a 2.2 GHz Core2Duo with 4 GB RAM and a 500GB HD.
E.g. the JBoss6 AS needs about 5 ...
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After installing Lion my mac became super slow
After installing Lion, my macbook pro became unbelievably slow.. what could be the reason?
Safari sometimes freeze for 30 seconds (in particular when there's Flash content). When I open mail after ...
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Mission Control slow and jerky on 2011 MacBook Pros: any fix?
Mission Control has been horribly slow on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" (2GHz quad i7, 8GB RAM, 256MB graphics, SSD) -- swiping up usually freezes the screen for 2 seconds, before showing me the Mission ...
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1answer
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Snow Leopard vs. Lion performance: what are the differences?
Is Snow Leopard or Lion faster?
And how significant is the speed difference?
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How can I best use an SSD?
I have a Mac Pro, and I've added an Intel 80GB SSD to improve performance in LightRoom and Photoshop. So far so good.
But after moving all of my current work, catalogs, etc. to the SSD, I still have ...
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Will upgrading to Lion boost performance and responsiveness?
I remember going from Leopard to Snow Leopard was a huge performance boost.
Going to Lion, is it going to be the case? Read so many reviews yet none of them discussed this (many discussed gestures ...
