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Macbook Pro 2011 Lion slow FIX

Two weeks ago i bought my new Macbook Pro 15 inch, but is was even slower than my 2,5 year laptop pc. A real bummer, but thanks as alway to a communnity i got it solved. I noticed that my Ram memory was really low and the waiting icon just kept showing up.

Google and the community of Apple solved it, only some say it's temporary and comes back again. But for now, give it a try and maby it helps you to.

Even do it said it was ok, the repair still helped boosting my Macbook Pro with OS lion to normal speed.

Lion slow fix found by APierce24

Re: Why is Lion so slow?

Jul 24, 2011 1:00 AM (in response to JWKanvik)

Ok guys I had the exact same problem but I think I found a solution. I just did it about 30 minutes ago and since then my MacBook Pro is running just like it used to with snow leopard. No guarantees that i fixed the problem but this is what i did. I went to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. I then ran a verify disk scan and found that there were many problems with me Macintosh HD drive. It said I needed an install disk of lion to fix. Since there is no disk I thought I would experiment and this is what I did.

1) shut down my computer and then started it back up while holding down the alt key. (this should bring up two disk options to run your computer)

2) I chose the second option (I believe it is called something like "recovery disk" but dont quote me on that. you want to select the one that is NOT Macintosh HD)

3) It loaded and then gave me four choises of what to do. I clicked disk utility.

4) From there I ran the verify disk scan again then clicked repair disk.

5) I then ran the verify disk permissions scan and then repaired those as well.

6) then I restarted my computer and spotlight indexed the computer (i let it do its thing without running any programs) once it was done my computer worked so much faster and for the first time I can say, I AM GLAD I HAVE LION! I hope this is a permenant fix. Please let me know if you try this and how it works for you