24" Aluminum iMac Slow with Lion

I have a 24" Aluminum iMac - 2.8Ghz, 6GB RAM, 500GB HD... its a Spring 2008 iMac... SL was getting slow and we upgraded to Lion. The becahball comes on very frequently and takes anywhere from a minute to <insert time> to go away... i repair my permissions all the time, my SMART status says verified, i have used Onyx and nothng makes it better for good... once i repair permissions or us Onyx, it gets better for a little bit, but then back to what is now normal on our mac...
any ideas? any sugesstions?

My iMac is a mid-2007 20" 2.4ghz Core2Duo with 4gb of RAM. Your machine is better than mine. Lion will run very nicely on yours.
If you upgraded to Lion within the last few hours or a day or so, your Spotlight index is being rebuilt. Until it's done, everything will feel slow and even kind of... jerky because the CPU is being heavily used by that process. Let it finish.
In my case, even once that was done, for the next several days things felt slow and not very responsive. But after a few days, things went back to normal. This was not just my subjective experience - I still have Snow Leopard on another partition so it's easy for me to reboot to reset my expectations. I have a feeling that Lion does something in the background after an upgrade from Snow Leopard, building a Versions database or something, that bogs down the CPU until it's done - and it take a long time to get done. So have patience, give it at least a week.
Of course, repairing permissions, rotating your log files, and clearing your caches isn't going to hurt. But I recommend patience. Others have reported the same experience I described.

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