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After I installed the update, my computer began to freeze almost every other minute. It was horrible. It slowed down everything. All the apps would freeze. The beach ball of death as it is known would pop up almost everytime I did anything. Spotlight and the Dock were the worst.
I tried everything. I have finally reverted back to 10.6.5 and things seem to be working ok. Did everyone else have this problem?
I am not even sure that what I've done has fixed my issues. I love Apple products but this made me lose a lot of faith.

Jose, No one else seems to be reporting bad experiences so there is something defective in your system. My suggestions:—
1 Repair permissions (Disk Utility)
2 Zap the pRAM (restart holding down option-command-P-R)
3 DiskWarrior
4 Back up, re-format, re-install

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