Re: Update on my laggy Mac situation

2014-01-28 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hi Alex, This may be another one you may not want to invest the time, but here goes. Ifyour Mac was running well using Mountain Lion, is it worth it to roll back to that OS? I have had 2 tech people at my local Apple store stating that they haven't yet upgraded their Macs at home and are still

Re: Update on my laggy Mac situation

2014-01-28 Thread Alex Hall
My Mac is from August of 2011. I have used it heavily ever since, though mostly in Windows for the first year. There is a Mac Mini downstairs that is from 2007, and it is still going strong. In fact, interns of launching apps, it is faster than my Mavericks machine. This has been going on since

Re: Update on my laggy Mac situation

2014-01-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
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 ar

Update on my laggy Mac situation

2014-01-28 Thread Alex Hall
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 servi