Very sound advice from Rishi Talreja. On 09-Mar-2013, at 2:31 AM, Rishi Talreja <[email protected]> wrote: > That seems quite sufficient. I’d suggest against trying to go back to Lion > (10.7) and stick to Mountain Lion (10.8) which is more stable in my opinion. > One thing I would do is, create a new user account on the mac and login with > it after rebooting. If you have a lot of apps that you use already, they > create a lot of crap in the library folder and creating the new user creates > a new set of these files. So if you upgraded from a previous version and some > of those files were creating conflicts, this would eliminate that. See if you > experience any difference running your apps one by one in the new user > account. Also, 4 GB of ram is enough for day to day use but not optimum for > using apps like Photoshop or FCP. I use Apple Aperture for photo management > and editing on my MBP which also has 4 GB ram and it runs terribly. The only > way to handle that is to make sure to quit other apps like mail, safari, > iTunes that I usually have open before running Aperture. That improves the > performance quite a bit. If doing that helps you, either keep doing that, or > upgrade your ram to 8 GB. Also worth noting is if you’ve used those apps from > long ago and haven’t connected to the internet in a while, they might be old > versions. Try to find a good internet connection and update all your apps to > the latest versions. Many times, that solves a lot of performance-related > issues. > > Hope that helps.
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