having upgraded four imac machines in an office environment to lion >
24″ imacs, one an intel core 2 duo 2.66ghz 2gb ram machine (unuseably slow in comparison to snow leopard ? same spec)
24″ imac 4gb ram intel core 2 duo noticeably slower and pausing not as but bad as 2 gig ram imac. but still allot worse under lion ?
under snow leopard the same machines were all fine ?
the machines have gone from being useable on snow leopard to almost unuseable after the upgrade to lion, immense pausing all the time mail being too slow for words ? and weird pausing occurring, As a person who supports apple machines for a living I dont expect an OS upgrade to cause me such grief that machines become practically unuseable through a enforced paid upgrade. just so that my clients can continue to sync contacts and calendars ? with the forced death of mobileme ?
this means although the os only costs £20 my time spent resolving the slowness and upgrading software is untenably high ? and now am coming to the conclusion I have to go onsite to do flaming clean installs, as the machines performance stands, post upgrade its unacceptable, my clients are giving huge grief over the upgrades. which were only implemented to retain syncing ?
Also the fact you have removed all control in recent os installs from the user over what kind of install occurs compared to previously, ie Theres no “archive install” or clean install selectable unless I format the drive ? as the process is now all hidden from the user and automatic etc, only improvement in this process being I can remote install the upgrade and wait for a restart.
looking in activity monitor and console I can clearly see page ins and page outs are high will upgrade the 2gig to 4gig, to the sorry max of this machine you set in firmware ? although in a 64bit os its now 8gb rather than 4gb ram right ?
console is riddled with os complaints and errors post upgrade? issues relating to mdworker and indexing which cpu process wise, seems to dominate things, but the pausing seems worse than expected even for a low memory scenario hence going for the clean installs and the time to reinstall and re-setup every darn thing on the machine seeming the only logical conclusion ? however wasteful of support time and unnecessarily expensive for my clients. why do so many apple programs seem so memory hungry compared to others apps ? safari v chrome for instance why does safari gobble so much with hardly any windows open ? compared to chrome ?
why has perfomance under lion so radically degraded compared to SL, and dont suggest ML 10.8 as the solution ? where are you wasting the machine previously acceptable performance ?
Why is mail like the slowest mail client I’ve ever used ? it desires to endlessly write every tiny change to disk and to be so slow at writing it means moving a thousand emails takes an age ? compared to what it should be ? im seriously considering moving them all to thunderbird just to get some performance when running an email program ? why is this the case ? exporting mboxs takes an age and doing anything in mail seems to take crazy amounts of time, if you observe and wait for the activity window to actually finish a given task moving emails etc ?
sadly I dont trust that any of this stuff will be fixed in 10.8 and why should I pay for that when the recent lion upgrade seemed to bork things up and stiff me over time and energy wise ?
feature request
In the future it would be good if you could build computers where every point of the bootup and shutdown process can be visually remote controlled, a big ask but a second networked always on os, a secondary os to the main os, perhaps residing in earam to remote control the main install would be immensely useful.
A simple GUi way of determining the ip of an osx machine im networked ? get info on networked to machine icon ?
a way in network utility of testing hardwired ethernet networks for throughput and interference to establish weak links in network topology
a better permission system that just works by default from a collaborative networked group perspective, interface for setting umask ? os9 permissions sharing system worked much better in practice than osx’s do, especially from an permissions inheritance perspective subfolders etc, the dual acls and posix perms setup is confusing as hell and permission repair in disk utility not repairing user folder acl permissions is very weak ? command line seems only way or reset pasword boot hidden perms repair routine another trick that wont work remotely ? site visits grr… ?
other issues
installer re download for each machine.
The way the app store expects you to download the upgrade to lion on each machine individually repeatedly is the biggest waste of bandwidth and time from a support perspective, obviously I can do some installer extraction and copy round the network and instal , but your actual chosen standard method of re-download is ridiculous from a tech support perspective. and yet now creating usb boot version of lion installer to save time from from a support perspective in disk utility has also gone south and become unusable ? refuse to do with checking also AS I maintain many many macs ive noticed you mark the installer to some extent to an apple ID as I discovered ? after copying the installer around for upgrading clients as I was purchasing the upgrade for clients using there apple IDS from the app store but not wanting to wait for the downloads on each machine as a waste of time and bandwidth, so the re-use of an lion installer. but this revealed at some point the installer was retaining the apple ID ?
FUll screen effects
AS a person who does 90% of his support remotely, I find it highly offensive the number of full screen transitions and visual unnecessary rubbish you use throughout the os as the is an immense waste of upload bandwidth when remote supporting to draw all these gimmicky full screen effect screen redraws for different actions, please be sparing with these things and think of remote support.