


Back then, I thought the conclusion was that there is nothing broken about OS X memory management I read through the comment of a few weeks ago, and I did not see anything conclusive or even anything that would outweigh my subjective impressions that something about Lion on my (stock) 2011 Mac mini is causing unnecessary lack of responsiveness. we already went through this a few weeks ago. The other crazy thing I've been seeing is it routinely takes Chrome minutes to shutdown - in fact, pretty much every time I try to reboot my MBP without shutting down Chrome first, the shutdown process times out trying to exit Chrome. That made it go from nearly unusable to just frequently annoying. Though I did improve matters drastically by telling mds not to index my (Linux) MP3 server and my Time Machine drive.

For what it's worth, I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I see the same sort of terrible performance the article describes. Cool trick you can do: hook up an external monitor via thunderbolt and watch as the left side dock becomes a mangled mess with icons miss-positioned and wrongly triggering apps-it's like playing a game of whack-a-mole trying to open terminal to kill -KILL dock:) The i5 has also been less than stellar compared to the older MBPro I sold to buy it in terms of performance.
