Had my MBP for 2 hours - Lagging Already

just recieved my new MPB this morning, was fine when i first booted it up then after i restarted it it started lagging and running incredibly slow, even with no apps open

help!

 

What do you mean lagging?

 

eg if i type something it takes a second or two to actually come up on the screen, scrolling is not smooth

generally it is just really slow and unresponsive and thats actualy the exact reason i bought it coz my HP was doing the same thing

 

Have you installed any software? If so, what?

 

... maybe just a dud, try getting another one from apple.

 

ok i restarted again and its fixed....phew

i plugged in the mighty mouse for the first time which i think may have caused it, is that normal?

 

Well, sometimes the Mac just get overloaded...and to fix that, restart the Mac.

 

thanks, i was getting so annoyed with it

but i absolutely love it now, cant wait til exams have finished so i can start using it properly!

 

Wait'll it happens again, and you'll be annoyed at it, and then you restart and you'll love it again .

Oh, and while you're restarting, you'll marvel at the >30 second boot times and love it even more .

 

dont you mean <30 seconds?

 

isn't the initial lag caused by some sort of indexing program so that spotlight can work properly?

 

I think I remember that happening when I first got my macbook -- the spotlight indexing. The only other times I've had issues of system wide slowdowns were when I used up enough of the ram that os x decided to go on a swapping frenzy.

 

the more I read here the more OSX seems like windows

 

Whoa!! I thought Mac was always criticizing Windows by saying that occasionally a restart is necessary; They claimed that Mac's almost never need to restart. Well then...

 

that's nice to hear

 

Hey, Apple's marketing is very deceptive, I agree. OS X does not need a restart as often as Windows does (such as just to get a printer connected), but it does not mean they don't have to.

And plus, OS X restarts so quickly anyways. I can do a full restart in under a minute.

 

Yes, I did. I guess I got my arrows mixed up .

 

As for restarts, I don't restart my MBP often. I even did an esperiment on how long I could go without a restart. My criteria was that if I sensed ANY slowdown in my audio recording apps, then I would restart immediately.
I eventually restarted when fighting some network problem at home (turned out it wasn't the MBP, it was my WinXP desktop machine).
The only crashes I experienced were programs like VLC (I run the bleeding edge nightly build test version)

How long didi it run?
just over 44 days! Admittedly it was time for a restart, and the boot to longer than usual.

 

I don't think you really need to restart OSX or Windows XP. I've had my MBP running without restarting for about a month and a half now and haven't had any problems with slow downs or things bogging up. Same thing with my desktop at home (windows xp). I probably had it running for a good year or so before I finally shut it down for when I left for college. I can't say the same for Vista. I've really tried to use it but it has never lasted a day before format time .