Macbook pro - Yosemite issues

[gex23]

I have a Haswell MBP retina - when it was running Mavericks OS X everything was smooth, snappy and quick - however, ever since i've updated to Yosemite I find that everything's so laggy, scrolling, the UI, Safari has to constantly be quit and re-opened - it's really ruining the Apple experience for me. I've installed all the relevant OS X updates and am running no third party anti-virus or memory cleaner software to interfere with it.

Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Jay_A]

Can't help directly, but would recommend installing Sophos AV and CleanMyMac2. The latter is a paid for app, but I find really useful to delete all the cr*p off my macbook pro.

Might also be worth running Disk Util and run "Verify Disk", "Verify Disk Permissions". They will most likely find a few issues, but whether that helps or not .......

 

[paul the 6th]

as above, run disk utility to verify and then click repair as well... then after that, reset your P-ram - turn the macbook off, then power it on whilst holding 'command + shift + P + R' - I still don't know exactly how this does its thing but a lot of hardcore apple fans recommend it as one of the first things to try. The above 2 things worked on my missus' MBP the other day when it was being glitchy and slow.

 

[Darren61]

I found this happens when you download the latest OS on top of an existing one. Very laggy and slows the machine down at really basic things like coming out of it's screen saver and speed of logging in after it's in sleep mode. But I'm in a worse position that you. 2011 MacBook Pro with 2.0GHZ i7 that was initially shipped with Lion and now has had Mountain Lion>Mavericks>Yosemite since then.. Never buying a HDD computer again. MacBook Air for me next time I think!

 

[Gavin.]

I had exactly the same on my late 2011, upgraded to an SSD and a fresh install and it's rapid now.

 

[dk]

I'm experiencing the same with my 2011 Mac book pro, first time I've had an issue really, seems to mainly be around safari and sometimes finder is also crashing.

 

[AdDaMan]

My 2011 Air has issues coming out of standby taking an age, and also the volume and brightness animations lag a little.

 

[DannyR]

Can't help directly, but would recommend installing Sophos AV and CleanMyMac2. The latter is a paid for app, but I find really useful to delete all the cr*p off my macbook pro.

Might also be worth running Disk Util and run "Verify Disk", "Verify Disk Permissions". They will most likely find a few issues, but whether that helps or not .......

Could you not use onyx which is free?

 

[-Jamie-]

I found the same when i upgraded my late 2012 to Yosemite. I find that it uses a lot more memory compared to older versions so i upgraded my Ram and have had no issues since, Going to stick a SSD in it as well just to make it even quicker.

 

[AdDaMan]

SSD will make far more difference than the RAM did!

 

[Jay_A]

Could you not use onyx which is free?

Never heard of it mate, so can't comment I'm afraid.

 

[-Jamie-]

SSD will make far more difference than the RAM did!

It needed both, It would really struggle when processing and editing videos and photos until i put more Ram in. Just researching what SSD I'm going to get now, So much choice

 

[AdDaMan]

Samsung 830 is what I used when I did my pro. That was the best at the time although that was at least 18months ago.

 

[Tom]

LOL at upgrading to a SSD as being a suggestion. Nice one.
As has been said, permissions and disk repair. If no joy with that then you'll need to clean instal.

You could always go back to mavericks until they sort out issues.

 

[AdDaMan]

LOL at upgrading to a SSD as being a suggestion. Nice one.
As has been said, permissions and disk repair. If no joy with that then you'll need to clean instal.

You could always go back to mavericks until they sort out issues.

No one actually suggested that...?
1 person said that's what they had done in the past but didn't suggest it.

 

[Gavin.]

LOL at upgrading to a SSD as being a suggestion. Nice one.
As has been said, permissions and disk repair. If no joy with that then you'll need to clean instal.

You could always go back to mavericks until they sort out issues.

It was something I was planning on doing anyway, it just seemed as good times any once performance issues were noticed.

 

[NFox]

To OP, I dont suppose you have paralells installed? If you have version 7 or older it plays havoc with Yosemite. Mine is back to its original self since completely removing it.

 

[Jack!]

I'm going back to Mavericks; f**king had it with the Wifi issues.