Macbook slow

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Spitfir3

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Hey all,

Right i've got a later 2007 Macbook: 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo, 1gb 667 mhz DDR2 SDRAM running Snow Leopard. I've currently got Transmission, Spotify (not playing), iTunes (not playing), iPhoto 11, Adium and Safari with one tab up - surely that's not very demanding? And yeah, it's pretty damn slow, opening a new finder window took 3-4 seconds and Expose didn't show up after a good 5 seconds! Even PS CS4 by itself is a bit of a nightmare. My mates new Macbook is pretty quick and the spec isn't exactly massively different?

I looked in Activity Monitor and my RAM usage is around: 17mb Free, 198 Wired, 541 Active, 263 Inactive and 1000 Used. Is this the problem? I looked on the Crucial website and 2GB RAM is going for £29! I've also got around 14gb H/D space free (out of ~110gb).

Cheers guys :)
 
I'd say it is the Ram. The new MBP uses DDR3 ram at a faster speed, and has 4 times as much as yours. It shouldn't cost too much to max it out ram-wise, what does Crucial say your max is?

HDD upgrade too might speed it up, but no guarantee on that. I don't really know what difference a full HDD makes to an empty HDD.
 
8t10 said:
I'd say it is the Ram. The new MBP uses DDR3 ram at a faster speed, and has 4 times as much as yours. It shouldn't cost too much to max it out ram-wise, what does Crucial say your max is?

HDD upgrade too might speed it up, but no guarantee on that. I don't really know what difference a full HDD makes to an empty HDD.
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It says max is 2GB. My mate's is just a new 2.2ghz Macbook with 2GB RAM iirc.
 
Yes... the slowness is from things having to be swapped on and off the HDD because they can't all be kept in RAM at the same time.

You can see what the main RAM munchers are in Activity Monitor by selecting All Processes from the dropdown and sorting by the Real Memory column.
 
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