Why is it slow?

[MNCollegeKid]

I just bought a 13" macbook pro, with 4 gb RAM and the 250 hard drive. I was told by the guy at the store that my laptop would be loading pages faster than i could even imagine, so I was really excited for this new speed. It can't even load a page faster than my stone age dell desktop. Can anyone explain this to me? Is it my home wireless, or some poor choices in hardware on my part? Please I don't know much about computers at all, so any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Andy007]

Hi there,

What speed is your home connection running at? What spec was your Dell?

 

[pigoo3]

I'm guessing it's your internet connection...the MacBook Pros are pretty fast computers, especially when it comes to internet surfing.

- Nick

 

[Blazkowicz]

It's definitely your internet connection - do a speed test with one of the online utilities. If pages are loading at the speed of your stone age desktop, it means your internet connection is a joke.

 

[acosta.matt]

go to speedtest.net and check out the speeds on both