Slow new PB 15" in Final Cut Pro HD

[Temujin]

I got the new 15" PB. 1.67, 512, 5400 rpm.
Whilst fidling around with Final Cut Pro, the PB get a bit laggy. What's the cause, the 512 ram or the harddrive?

 

[paulypants]

G4 + Not enough RAM + 5400RPM Drive + FCP HD = Slow.

HD editing should really be done on a workstation for optimal performance.

 

[Temujin]

Not really doing HD, just use the program for DV editing. No fancy stuff, just simple editing.

Will the performance increase significantly by getting an extra 1 gb ram (about 100 mb left now when editing) ?

 

[ITASOR]

Did you have anything else opened when you were using FCP? If so, try it with just that and when you do, open Activity Monitor to see your RAM. If you have a lot of RAM free then it's not a RAM problem. Tell us how much you have remaining (in green) while running FCP.

 

[Temujin]

Im using Handbrake right now, compressing into xvid. 9 mb in green left

In FCP around or below 100

 

[ipacmm]

I would still get some more ram. Around 1GB or 1.5GB should make everything run a lot faster.