Mathematica7 slower with Lion?

Anyone had problems running Mathematica7 under Lion OS? It is much much more slower on version 10.7.2 than on version 10.6.8!
Lion takes ~ 3min just to open or open a file! Do you know how to improve it?

It is slower, but the difference should not be significan 10% maybe. Some sites like Hardmac have processed with performance tests. Older Macs are slower, but newer Macs get faster with Lion.

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Reviews say Aperture runs really slow with Lion, any suggestions?
To add on to Corky02 answer:
The recent Aperture release AP 3.3.x is very efficient, both on Lion and Mountain Lion. But you need a decent hardware to support it. The older Macs will have problems with the storage and CPU requirements. For good performance on large raw images plenty of RAM is important, at least 4GB, but 8GB would be much better, and your library should be on a fast disk, preferably on an internal drive. And don't let the system drive get too full.
Many reports about Aperture being slow are due to putting the Aperture library onto slow disks or acessing the original image files over the network, insufficient RAM, or corrupted or ill-designedAperture databases.
Aperture excels at all kinds of image processing that can be considered image developement - raw processing and color/lighting adjustments, but does not do compositing. If you are shooting raw and want professional image developement I'd recommend to do this in Aperture and not in iPhoto - you will have much more control over this in Aperture (after a steep learning curve). You can also repair and retouch the image to correct minor blamishes. For graphics compositing and inpainting you can set up an external editor and send your images from Aperture to this external editor - any of the editors Corky recommended would be o.k. for this.
To see, if you will want the advanced image processing in Aperture or the easy to use, more basic options in iPhoro will be sufficient to you have a look at the Aperture User manual, or the tutorial on the support page: Aperture Support
But Aperture is a professional apllication, not "plug and play". You should only consider it, if you are willing to spend some time on learning to use it properly and are willing to work your way through the manual.
Regards
Léonie

IMac works slower with Lion

Hi,
since I upgraded my iMac (bought it about 2 years ago) to Lion, the iMac Works much slower then with Snow Leopard.
Greetz,
Benjamin

It is slower, but the difference should not be significan 10% maybe. Some sites like Hardmac have processed with performance tests. Older Macs are slower, but newer Macs get faster with Lion.

MacBook boots much slower with Lion

I have a late '09 MacBook, and installed Lion on release day. I noticed that every operation was slower - switching between apps, loading messages in Mail, refreshing web pages in Safari, start up, shut down - the gamut.
I installed additional RAM, going from 2GB to 4GB. Switching between apps, and app response is much better, but the boot up process is still super slow. With OS X 10.6 my boot time was around 30 seconds from hitting the start button to having a functional desktop. With Lion and 4GB of RAM that time has at least tripled.
Is it just me? Any ideas on how to resolve?
TIA.

Whenever you install a new version of OS X, there's something called "Indexing" that takes place after the installation is complete. This uses a large amount of processing power but it only happens once, and can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours depending on your system. Once this process is completed your system will return to normal. It has nothing to do with Lion itself.
Indexing, btw, allows you to find things in your Mac using Spotlight and Smart Windows
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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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Safari: Web cam support through web sites was simply broken - even manually trying to alter adobe settings would not get you any further
Firefox 5: You had to set permissions for web cam support prior to launching a web site as flash settings to enable / disable it within the web site were simply not useable
Chrome: Settings worked, but the performance was so slow, if using a web chat client and a web cam at the same time, it was almost impossible to type proper words unless you typed a character a minute.
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SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
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Mac book pro running slow with lion

My Mac book pro is running real slow since upgrading from leopard to lion. Takes up to a minute or more to boot up and open some programs like I Photo.

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Why is Aperture working so slow with Lion?

Working with Aperture is so frustration. It was working OK before I installed Lion. What can I do???

Looks like Aperture 3.2 just came out. Maybe try downloading that. Also, updates to OS.

Mac is so slow with Lion

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Titan Tahir wrote:
I tried again to answer this message using Safari but was too slow, so had to go back to Firefox.
Sounds like you have a corrupted cache file
On the link I have instructions, do the following
0: Make a backup of just your User files folders off the machine to a storage drive (not TimeMachine) and disconnect all drives.
1: Hold Shift Key upon boot, (Safe Mode) then log in, see if your issues persist and reboot and see if they clear up.
2: Run the Disk Utility Repair/disk routine (if it gives any warning or repairs, run it again, stop and report here)
3: Run the OnyX routine (if it gives any warning or repairs, run it again, stop and report here)
4: Reinstall Safari
5: If that doesn't work, check your Internet connection, reset your router, create a new user and see if the problems continue in there.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046
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Running slow with Lion

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Mathematica7 slower with Lion?

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