Lion glitchy and slow. What gives!?

I have seen other posts about this, and it is quite ridiculous.
The Lion upgrade is painful, PAINFUL.
I feel like I am using a computer from 2002, what gives?!
Just a regular Mac user with no wacky applications installed or even used.
Losing the mac: office is understandable, due to no powerpc, but not have a platform that works is sort of an issue.
So slooooooowwwwwww, and with icloud, it all seems archaic.

Have you just installed/upgraded?
If so, Lion performs a slew of maintenance tasks, including clearing all old caches and rebuilding the Spotlight index (which, in itself can take hours, or even days to complete).
You'll probably also find your productivity inhibited for a while as you find the new bells, whistles and knobs.
So give it a little while - at least wait until your spotlight is updated before trying to benchmark performance.

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Dead LION
Two-three months ago I upgraded to Lion (10.7.4)
The Lion discriminates a lot of applications
I should never have done that. Waste of money and especially a waste of my time.
There are NO essential news in Lion. It's just a monymaker for Apple
A bunch of applications does not work in Lion, while they been working fine in Snowleopard.
I could not delete the Lion and re-install SnowLeopard. (With out deleting all my datas).
I had to install SnowLeopard on a seperate external harddrive and now have to organize and disintegrate my else integrated work on two harddrives.
What a f'''''' bore. And absolute no thanks to Apple.
The Lion is stalling and slowing down, quits applications etc.
Since I installed the Lion on my computer (MacBook Pro 2 Ghz Intel core i7. 4 GB 1333 Hz DDR3)
is has been slowing down, in general and especially my browsers (Safari 5.1.7) (Google Chrome 13.0782.215) (Firefox 13.0.1). And Mail (5.2).
The OS quits applications, especially Mail and Safari.
The OS makes applications ever so often go in no-answer mode . Then I have to forcefully end them and start all over.
For speed and comfort I am back to 1991 Apple LC with 2 MB RAM. And no, the comfort was better then.
I have repaired disk with the OS own disktool.
I have reparied permissions again and again.
I have scanned for all problems and virus (MacKeeper).
I have rebooted and set the parametres to zero.
All applications are updated
Nothing helps.
I hope some of you friendly users or nerds can help. Thank you.
Best wisges Jan Knus

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Hi Lode
First run repair Disk Permissions. Did another install yesterday on an iMac
and it threw up the WiFi problen. (First one out of 10).
If that fixes your WiFi go to the Apple downloads and get the latest Java update.
I run all the adobe programs and with the 10.7.2 they are really sreaming along.
Aperture iPhoto as well. Worth the update
Hope this helps.
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I'm quite a beginner in terms of macbook pro maintenance and so please give me the basics, with clear instructions.....
I've had my macbook pro for about 4 years. I have upgraded to Mountain Lion.
It has started to be a real issue how slow my laptop now is to start up, in particular, and then to do other things.
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Reset the System Management Controller.
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Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
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Step 1
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Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
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Step 2
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When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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