My new Macbook 1.8

[jbrown]

Seems a little clunky to me. My previous computer was a 1.25ghz - and I used the inbuilt Apple migrate program to copy my old settings onto the new computer.

But there are many times I seem to be waiting while the computers appears to be ' thinking ' before doing what it should. And loading Microsoft programs takes a long time with the app icon bouncing in the dock for an age. A lot of the time it seems to be OK, but it happens enough to be annoying.

Are there any simple fixes that I've missed? I've repaired permissions.

cheers

 

[punkmac]

RAM RAM and more RAM!!!!


My friend has Mac Mini with stock RAM and it does beachball alot.

I have 2 Gigs and is very responsive.

 

[dpaanlka]

Well, if your running Microsoft programs, none of which are Intel native yet, then they're all being translated in real-time through rosetta, which coincidentally, runs terrible with the base 512mb of RAM.

 

[michaeldmartin]

Microsoft apps use rosetta.. sorry
Beat me to it!

 

[codo]

Microsoft apps use rosetta..

Like crap! Messenger and Word are just revolting in it, I find. I wish they would hurry up, they are my two most used applications and its annoying - I've been using my Windows machine more just to avoid the sluggishness of them both.

 

[user23]

Could be

Seems a little clunky to me. My previous computer was a 1.25ghz - and I used the inbuilt Apple migrate program to copy my old settings onto the new computer.

But there are many times I seem to be waiting while the computers appears to be ' thinking ' before doing what it should. And loading Microsoft programs takes a long time with the app icon bouncing in the dock for an age. A lot of the time it seems to be OK, but it happens enough to be annoying.

Are there any simple fixes that I've missed? I've repaired permissions.

cheers

Hey,

It could be that in doing the migration you copied over some stuff which is causing the slow down. I know this is vague information...but, I've read (here & there on different sites) of more than a few users who migrated from older Macs...only to find some prefs & such were causing the beach ball of hell syndrome.

Maybe you could just try a fresh install of OS X? At the least, you'll gain hard drive space by not installing all those extra languages & printer drivers.

good luck.

 

[dpaanlka]

Yeah I usually try to stay away from that migration assistant. I just copy the files manually that I know I want to keep, and reinstall any apps that I need afresh. Much safer that way.

 

[mrweirdo]

Like crap! Messenger and Word are just revolting in it, I find. I wish they would hurry up, they are my two most used applications and its annoying - I've been using my Windows machine more just to avoid the sluggishness of them both.

hrm gee i wonder why they are taking so long to update to universal my guess is m$ is doing that on purpose they want people on the mac to suffer and switch to windows in order for office to run full speed

 

[dmw007]

More RAM will definitely help boost your system performance jbrown. But even with 2GB of RAM M$ Office (and other non UB apps) are not going to run as fast on an Intel based Mac as they did on your old G4 based Mac.

 

[ironic23]

You'll definitely feel a significant difference with 2GB of ram as opposed to just 512mb. And yeah, due to rosetta, non-native apps run slow but surprisingly, Ms. Office opens up pretty quickly on my MBP with 1gb of ram.