Macbook Pro and OSX sloooow!! Vista fast as hell

[gwohl]

This may seem obvious, but I felt exactly the same way about OSX on the MacBook Pro until I upgraded my RAM. I was running at what I believed to be a respectable amount of 1GB, but it was not until I upgraded to 2GB that I felt I was satisfactorily running the OS at top speed. Now, this is entirely unnecessary, especially since Gentoo Linux on the MBP is ridiculously fast and functioning, but I needed it because I do live audio performances in OSX.

If an extra 50 bucks or so is not a problem for you, then you may want to consider getting an extra gigabyte or so.

 

[antx16]

macbook pro slowdowns solution

Okay, before fanboys start targeting me for destruction let me just explain I have used Mac for 4 years prior, but last year I went backpacking for a year so I sold my 12" Powerbook which I loved. So now I am back and after using Vista on my main PC for 6 months I sold everything and bought a MacBook Pro SR.

Now OS X on this thing is sluggish as hell. After I boot up everything is fine, but as soon as I start Aperture and iPhoto is is just like having a G3 iBook again ;p I installed Bookcamp and Vista and that works like a charm.

Is anyone else having slow OS X with these new MacBook Pros?

(And can anybody tell me how to get dual display to work woth Bootcamp and Vista?)

Well to all who have macintels the solution is very easy just go to ACTIVITY MONITOR in the UTILITIES FOLDER and see what POWER PC applications are being run , if you can get rid of these apps and use only UB apps it will run like new super fast , reason for this is when the macbook starts up it starts ROSETTA for the compatibility of these programs and ROSETTA grinds your mac to a halt , hope this helps you all .