The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    OS X slows down

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Douten, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. Douten

    Douten Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    120
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    After I played a little Spores on windows and switched back to OS X things were slow in responding. When I type it takes a second for the letters to show up, changing the screen brightness also took a second or two to display. I checked iStats and it says the CPU was at like 64C that's in the normal range AFAIK. Does anyone know why it slowed down? I turned off the MBP for a minute or two then turned it back on and the speed picked up, spotlight didn't show result right away but after a minute it runs normal now.
     
    Douten, Oct 28, 2008
    #1
  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,686
    Messages:
    3,982
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    During the slowdown, was there a dot in your spotlight icon on the top right corner of your screen? Chances are something got changed in Boot Camp that required Spotlight to re-index the Mac HD.
     
    Budding, Oct 28, 2008
    #2
  3. Douten

    Douten Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    120
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Ah! I did change my C drive name in boot camp because the untitled drive was bothering me, perhaps that caused that? Thanks!
     
    Douten, Oct 28, 2008
    #3
  4. StrongerThanAll

    StrongerThanAll Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    89
    Messages:
    994
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    ****, does renaming the drive mess up the computer?
     
    StrongerThanAll, Oct 28, 2008
    #4
  5. blurb23

    blurb23 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    20
    Messages:
    198
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    No, it's just Spotlight reindexing the drive. It'll be back to normal in a few minutes.
     
    blurb23, Oct 28, 2008
    #5