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#1
May 1st, 2008, 10:22 PM
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| Very Slow MacBook Pro Hey guys, I have a 1st generation MacBook Pro. I installed Leopard and now it is very very slow. I get the colored circle all the time and a lot of "not responding" apps that I have to force quit. Is there anything that I can do? Why is this happening? I have a 2 GHZ with 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM Thanks Here is a photo of my processes:   |
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#2
May 2nd, 2008, 03:36 AM
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| Look at Console for console.log and system.log when the Mac seems particularly slow. It should be telling what is happening at that point.
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#3
May 2nd, 2008, 09:14 AM
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| Other than running Onyx (or another utility) and DiskWarrior, an increase to your max of 3G RAM may help. RAM is very cheap right now.
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#4
May 2nd, 2008, 10:06 AM
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| Did you do an "upgrade install" when you installed Leopard, or did you install it fresh?
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#5
May 3rd, 2008, 05:43 AM
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| You need much more RAM. With Safari, iTunes and Mail running, you have 243 MB free and more importantly, your Swap File is 627 MB in size. An extra GB of RAM is going to help a lot as my Macbook with 2 GB ram hardly hits the swap file, even when playing games. |
