Mea Culpa re: Logos 4 for Mac Speed

I was experiencing poor performance on my new MacBook Pro when running Logos 4 for Mac. Frustrated by this for a few months now I write about it on my blog and complained here. I then did an upgrade, installing a new hard drive that is much faster. Immediately after the upgrade Logos was still very sluggish. My conclusion was that Logos was not coded well and I must admit I sort of went overboard, even to the point of planning to do a full comparison video between Logos in OS X and running on the same machine in Parallels/Windows 7. The problem was that my hybrid hard drive started learning that I use Logos a lot and began organizing the files on the SSD portion of the drive. During my test i did the Parallels demo first. It took a minute to load but was fast otherwise. Then I loaded the Mac version and it didn't load the same desktop (Logos for win and Logos for Mac seldom sync properly). So to make it fair I set up up my desktop the same way and restarted. Guess what? it loaded quickly, much more quickly this second time. 17 seconds quick. And it responded very quickly. So my test showed that my complaints were no longer valid.

So here I am offering my mea culpa. Get a very high powered MacBook Pro and an expensive hard drive upgrade and Logos 4 for Mac will run well.

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Wes Saad

Send money please. This poor pastor has to make do with an early 2008 Macbook Pro.

Dan

Two quick notes:

1. Every Application on a Mac loads faster the second time. It doesn't matter whether you have a fancy hard drive or not. This is a feature of OS X.

2. Logos does not sync the open desktops--only the saved layouts. I have 2 copies of Logos in Windows and 1 copy of the Mac. None of the startup desktops are the same, but all the saved layouts are synced between all three copies.

Mr. Simple

Heck, why go half way ? - This is the route you need to take for assured performance on a Mac Platform [H]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLujLtgBJC0

Send money please. This poor pastor has to make do with an early 2008 Macbook Pro.

May I join the queue?

Apart from that, I find it a bit odd that a program which basically is not doing incredibly complicated graphics will not run well on a computer that is three years old and runs anything else rather satisfactorily. I have that macbook 2008 as well, and with 4gb of Ram it does all I want it to do, except run Logos4 well. And here Kevin comes and tells us that we need a computer that is new and needs to be upgraded with some very expensive hardware?

Fr. Charles R. Matheny

Yep. I think we are just not very hip.

Monroe R Miller

But how will I get it in my backpack?

Heck, why go half way ? - This is the route you need to take for assured performance on a Mac Platform

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLujLtgBJC0

mab

Too funny. G5's can't run Logos 4 Mac at all.

Andrew Hanson

May I join the queue?

Apart from that, I find it a bit odd that a program which basically is not doing incredibly complicated graphics will not run well on a computer that is three years old and runs anything else rather satisfactorily. I have that macbook 2008 as well, and with 4gb of Ram it does all I want it to do, except run Logos4 well. And here Kevin comes and tells us that we need a computer that is new and needs to be upgraded with some very expensive hardware?

BR

I don't think you need to upgrade it new hardware. My new MBP with stock everything runs Logos very well. It's fast. Really fast. But, is it out of the realm of possibility to expect new software that, although it is not graphics intensive, certainly is data intensive, might slow down older hardware? Your machine may run everything else you use just fine, but I'd bet if you were to import a bunch .mp4 videos into iMove, it would take a good long time. Or, if you were to render a DVD with say, 8 different .mp4 clips, it might take you a good long time. Word and Safari et al probably do run just great, but then again they don't do much that pushes your machine.

Kevin, cudos to you for this thread.

Father Matheny, if you're in this forum, then like me you're probably way beyond being hip [;)]

Otto S. Carroll

Logos 4 is running great on my machine, with 8G RAM and a 7200 RPM hard drive.

A few months ago, I made a back-up clone of my HD onto a FW-800 external disk. After booting from that disk, I noticed that L4 was a little faster than it was on my internal HD. So I formatted my internal and cloned it back from my external. I got a noticeable improvement in L4's performance on my internal drive. I don't know if it was the consolidation of free space, the de-fragmentation of large index files, or what. All I can say is re-cloning my hard drive made it run better.

Might be worth a try for those still having performance issues with L4 Mac...