Since upgrading to Lion I see more beach balls than summer at the beach.

The i7 2.66 MacBook Pro runs hot and the fans often sound like a jet taking off. Background processes are running all over the place. Applications take forever to load (and exit). The network doesn't seem to start up correctly after sleep. Mail is back to the old problem of wanting me to entry the password for the server when I try to receive mail -- taking all accounts offline. (This used to happen all the time with Snow Leopard be mostly went away after a few updates. BTW - we are using Snow Leopard Server as our email server.) Oh, yeah, the battery is terrible. Fully charged disconnecting the power cable immediately shows 4.5 hours in the status bar. It used to say 7 or higher under Snow Leopard.
Anyone else having these problems?
I am very disappointed in Apple for these problems that QA should have identifed and corrected prior to release of teh OS.

Bojamijams wrote:
Try this..
Goto Applications -> Utilities -> Diskaid
Click your hard drive and then do Repair Disk Permissions.. if you want, you can also do Verify Disk and Verify Disk Permissions (although the verify disk permissions seems pointless, repair should just repair if things need repairing, otherwise leave them alone, but I dunno if thats how it does indeed work)
Better still restart while holding down the Command + r keys and boot into Lion restore. From there choose DiskUtility from the menu and run a repair on your disk from there. You can also repair permissions if you like. If that does not help, restart then try making a new User account and boot into that and see if the problems persist. You should not be seeing any of these problems in Lion. There is more of a chance that you have some third party application installed that is causing the conflict.
Pete

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