OS 10.4 - My Macbook is becoming slow

netlover · netlover #1 (**permalink**)

09-17-2007, 11:55 AM

Hi there,

Lately my Macbook hasnt been acting as fast as it used to. I mean dont get me wrong its still a great computer and great for multi-tasking buts its just not that "super fast" speed I used to get when I first purchased it.

I run Mac OS X 10.4.9 and I'm running Windows XP via Parallels which I always leave on 24/7. I was wondering if that could be the problem ? Even though I doubt it because I have 2 GB of RAM in my Macbook, so I allocated 800 MB for XP and 1.2 GB for Mac OS X.

Any ideas what I can do to speed up my system ?

Thanks

Aptmunich · Aptmunich #2 (**permalink**)

09-17-2007, 12:02 PM

It's almost certainly Parallels...

Virtualisation consumes a lot of system resources and OS X really benefits from lots of RAM. Allocating almost half of your RAM to Parallels will slow the rest of the system down if you multi task a lot.

netlover · netlover #3 (**permalink**)

09-17-2007, 09:58 PM

Thanks for your feedback. Will see what I can do.

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netlover #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 06, 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 101 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.33GHz, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD, OS X Leopard	09-17-2007, 11:55 AM Hi there, Lately my Macbook hasnt been acting as fast as it used to. I mean dont get me wrong its still a great computer and great for multi-tasking buts its just not that "super fast" speed I used to get when I first purchased it. I run Mac OS X 10.4.9 and I'm running Windows XP via Parallels which I always leave on 24/7. I was wondering if that could be the problem ? Even though I doubt it because I have 2 GB of RAM in my Macbook, so I allocated 800 MB for XP and 1.2 GB for Mac OS X. Any ideas what I can do to speed up my system ? Thanks
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