People say "Get and SSD", well, I've had 2 SSDs and 4 SSD failures (one drive failed three times, the other once and its replacement is still going.)
So, I'm all spinning rust here. 1.5 Terabytes of rust in my Macbook Pro and the only time I have a beach ball is trying to launch Team Fortress (but I blame valve for that).
I have massive, MASSIVE Final Cut and Aperture libraries. I leave the machine up for weeks. I leave Time Machine running all the time- there isn't even a slowdown when time machine is backing up.
My hard drives are encrypted with full disk encryption which means not only am I running spinning rust but its encrypted rust which means every read has to be decrypted.
No slowdowns or beach balls. Sure the occasional poorly written program will have a beach ball, and rendering video takes awhile, but that's to be expected.
Yet people constantly say that Lion sucks? Really? And they have these more beefy machines with more RAM?
Something doesn't add up here.