I hate to be a wet blanket, but this is an honest question. How old is your hard drive? My Mac mini became very laggy and choppy for about two weeks before the hard drive completely went, and I had to have it replaced. You might do a disc check and see if things are going ok with it. If there are problems, you might try a disc repair.
as for apps opening slowly, I think this is a bug with Mavericks, but it doesn’t happen with all users. I have this issue myself, and so do others running various Mac desktops. HtH, Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Jan 28, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > First, some comments on how things have been after my complete re-install > Sunday. I waited until now because I was copying data back from Time Machine, > letting Box and Dropbox sync their data with my hard drive, setting up my > first-ever Windows VM and having that sync with my cloud services, and > letting Spotlight index everything. > > My Mac, I'm very sad to say, feels no faster. Apps still take a while to > open, or open immediately but are busy for a while. Mail messages usually > open immediately, but some can still take a long time (plaintext ones, so > it's not an html rendering thing). VO has hardly bee choppy so far, so that's > something, but nothing says that problem can't come back - it was never a > constant issue in the first place, so it may well return soon. > > I am at a loss. I looked at my Activity Monitor, and saw that Mail had > written 1.07gb of data, the largest amount written as far as I can tell. That > isn't surprising, though, as that was likely when it was pulling all my mail > for the first time since the re-install. All other apps seem normal, so there > appears to be no excessive data usage. Even before the update, after I dumped > Soundflower, nothing was making excessive use of the CPU, so that was not the > problem. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Short of a new > machine or downgrading to 10.8, I am out of ideas. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
