MacBook Air Feels Laggy

[Garemz]

I have the 1.6 80 HDD Version of the MBA and it feels laggy sometimes.

For example Yesterday I was watching some Video Podcasts (Cranky Geeks) The video would stutter, the only thing that was going on in the background was Podcasts were being copied to my Apple TV.

Firefox sometimes goes laggy and the Beach Ball appears.


The OS feels laggy sometimes also not always but sometimes, I never multi task on this thing.

Anyone have these problems.

Cheers
Gary

 

[teerexx52]

I have the 1.6 80 HDD Version of the MBA and it feels laggy sometimes.

For example Yesterday I was watching some Video Podcasts (Cranky Geeks) The video would stutter, the only thing that was going on in the background was Podcasts were being copied to my Apple TV.

Firefox sometimes goes laggy and the Beach Ball appears.


The OS feels laggy sometimes also not always but sometimes, I never multi task on this thing.

Anyone have these problems.

Cheers
Gary

I have a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. For email, surfing, iphoto, itunes seems fine. No real difference between my two machines for those kinds of things

 

[ozthegweat]

Check activity monitor if your MBA is still running on both cores.

My MBA shuts down one core when playing back any kind of video, which is really annoying, cause everything becomes slow and the video stutters.

 

[devilot]

Firefox sometimes goes laggy and the Beach Ball appears.

Hmm, I don't use FF, but now you've got me thinking when I've seen the beach ball. I've seen it when Adium hangs-- but I saw that on the iMac and MB so I think that's unique to Adium.

But related to that...

The OS feels laggy sometimes also not always but sometimes, I never multi task on this thing.

Feeling laggy? Yes, I think I'd agree with that. But I guess it also depends on what you're comparing it to. My MB and iMac were and are more than sufficient for my needs-- they feel plenty quick.

And what do you mean by multi-tasking? Which apps? Which sorts of tasks?

Yes, video is a killer-- whether it's watching streamed video, or say video chat-- the MBA just gets brutalized. Super duper hot to the touch and fans go nuts. That's a bit disappointing but not exactly unexpected.

At any rate, I've noticed some weird "lag-like" issues but seriously wonder if it's even hardware related-- I think Leopard is buggy as hell and I think Apple has stretched themselves too damned thin. Mail.app has issues all the time, iTunes isn't creating true iPhone backups, etc. etc.

Whew. That was a wordy post, sorry.

 

[netdog]

Yes, video is a killer-- whether it's watching streamed video, or say video chat-- the MBA just gets brutalized. Super duper hot to the touch and fans go nuts. That's a bit disappointing but not exactly unexpected.

I'm not finding this to be true, and I am used to a MacBook Pro C2D and a Mac Pro 2.8. The C2D 1.8 is a very nice chip, as is the 1.6 for that matter. The x3100 surpasses my expectations.

 

[devilot]

Well, maybe your MBA is just that much cooler than mine.

Seriously, I use Skype for video chats nearly every single day. On the MBA? It makes it crazy hot to the touch and makes my fans ramp up. Does it work? Yes. Is it worth the noise and discomfort for me to have video chat on the MBA when my iMac is just "over there?" No. I use Skype on the iMac... and try not to use it on the MBA.

 

[steve31]

This is an issue that a lot of people seem to be having. I have the 1.8 with SSD HD and have not yet seen any lag. I did read over in apple support that some one said "apple was aware of this and was working on it" so there might be hope for a quick solution. I have noticed with mine that if I stream a lot of video the fan speed does max out quickly.

 

[hoyaspook]

Check activity monitor if your MBA is still running on both cores.

My MBA shuts down one core when playing back any kind of video, which is really annoying, cause everything becomes slow and the video stutters.

How can I tell if both cores are running on Activity Monitor?

 

[Garemz]

Go to activity monitor click on CPU and see if there is CPU usage on both cores

 

[Frozonecold]

Hmmn, check how much ram firefox is using. I used to have firefox trouble on my iMac. It would use 400Mb+ of memory.

 

[xparaparafreakx]

I have a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. For email, surfing, iphoto, itunes seems fine. No real difference between my two machines for those kinds of things

Very true when I use my MBP and Air. Double check your activity monitor or if you like good old terminal, top -u.