First time mac user, Macbook Pro sluggish?

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Hi all,
I've had my 15" Macbook Pro 2.66ghz for about 2-3weeks now and it has started to get sluggish already. It's the sort of thing that I'd expect happen on a Windows laptop (maybe Mac too but I don't know) after a few years, maybe it needing a defrag or reinstalling Windows to make it go to it's original speed. But what could be causing the problem on my new Macbook Pro? I have barely any programs running really but Firefox freezes a fair bit and quite a lot of programs pause really when there's no real reason. I've tried using Safari as well just incase it was a Firefox memory leak or something but Safari gets a similar thing. CPU on these programs seem to increase but I can't see why...

I'm thinking it could be because I upgraded to Snow Leopard rather than doing a clean install... (Small rant, my Macbook came just days before Snow Leopard was released but I was still made to pay for it (alright I didnt mind too much it was £7.95) and then it took way over 2 weeks for it to arrive for supposedly £7.95 delivery charges!)

So any ideas? I've got some downloads atm that I want finishing first and once they finish I was thinking of doing a clean install of Snow Leopard which I'm hoping will help.

Cheers!
 
Well clean install would be the best way to sort out any speed issues you may have.

Otherwise try doing the sudo daily weekly monthly command and see if that helps.

Onyx is good software if you are a little scared of terminal.
 
From what i've seen almost everyone with problems did an upgrade to Snow Leopard.

People who did clean most of the time are plain sailing.

Just a thought...
 
Alright I'll do that when I can!

Trouble is obviously I already have lots of settings I want to keep buttt I don't want time machine to copy everything across because if it's something I have installed thats made it slow it'll just be slow again!
 
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