Late 2011 model, base spec except I've upgraded it to 8GB of RAM.
It's fine for browsing and day to day stuff, but as soon as I ask it to do anything demanding, it gets frustratingly slow.
I have a Win 7 VM running in Parallels, first off I assigned it 4GB of RAM, but I've now dropped it to 2GB and not much difference.
Apart from that, I have Skype open, MSN, iTunes, Firefox and Mail. So nothing exactly demanding.
While the Win 7 image is doing nothing, Mac OS becomes slow, unresponsive and I get that stupid parasol up spinning away VERY often. Switching between Spaces is clunky as is just generally using the OS. Sometimes the OS is fine, other times it goes slow.
If I close the Win 7 image, and open something like Backtrack, the same happens. Same with any other Linux image I have.
It also does it if I have GNS3 running with more than 2 routers but Parallels closed.
It's hugely frustrating. If I wanted a computer that was only capable of browsing the internet and having MSN conversations, I'd have bought a £300 laptop, not a nigh on £1000 MacBook Pro.
All software is up to date.
Any ideas?
It's fine for browsing and day to day stuff, but as soon as I ask it to do anything demanding, it gets frustratingly slow.
I have a Win 7 VM running in Parallels, first off I assigned it 4GB of RAM, but I've now dropped it to 2GB and not much difference.
Apart from that, I have Skype open, MSN, iTunes, Firefox and Mail. So nothing exactly demanding.
While the Win 7 image is doing nothing, Mac OS becomes slow, unresponsive and I get that stupid parasol up spinning away VERY often. Switching between Spaces is clunky as is just generally using the OS. Sometimes the OS is fine, other times it goes slow.
If I close the Win 7 image, and open something like Backtrack, the same happens. Same with any other Linux image I have.
It also does it if I have GNS3 running with more than 2 routers but Parallels closed.
It's hugely frustrating. If I wanted a computer that was only capable of browsing the internet and having MSN conversations, I'd have bought a £300 laptop, not a nigh on £1000 MacBook Pro.
All software is up to date.
Any ideas?
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