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- 15" MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz/4 GB/500 GB
I have a 20" iMag G5, with the standard specs, ie 512 MB RAM, 250GB SATA.
I seem to notice that my mac can experience some slowdown. I'm wondering why this is, and kind of nervous if I made the right choice to pay close to 2 grand for this computer. I love the looks, UI, Unix core, etc, but I don't like this slow down.
Now, coming from the PC world, I am used to multitasking. So, naturally on my Mac I will be running more than one application at a time. Typically when I experience the slowdown I have something like Safari with 4-5 tabs, Mail, LimeWire, Folding@Home, iTunes, and iChat open. When I do, operations such as raising or lowering the volume via keyboard, clicking on menus, etc seem to be sluggish on reacting.
I am hoping that this is an issue of not enough RAM on the system. What do you think? Do you think this is an issue of not enough RAM, or just not enough GHz. I don't mind if an application takes a few seconds to load, but once it is up, I want it to react to my input immediatly. If I want to increase the volume, I want it to happen as soon as I hit the button.
I can live with the computer being a bit sluggish, although if it is simply "normal" to be this way, then I am kinda dissapointed in Mac. I am hoping that this is simply a side effect of 512MB of RAM rather than normal. I just want to make sure before I decide to get more RAM. If RAM will help out, I will go with a 1 GB stick from newegg for a total of 1.5GB or if one of my friends wants to upgrade thier new iMacs, i will give them the 512 and get two 1GB for a total of 2 GB of RAM.
Other than the slowdown when I have multiple applications running, I am loving the Mac, I just want to see if I can get it to be even better.
Thankfull for any advice,
Nathan
I seem to notice that my mac can experience some slowdown. I'm wondering why this is, and kind of nervous if I made the right choice to pay close to 2 grand for this computer. I love the looks, UI, Unix core, etc, but I don't like this slow down.
Now, coming from the PC world, I am used to multitasking. So, naturally on my Mac I will be running more than one application at a time. Typically when I experience the slowdown I have something like Safari with 4-5 tabs, Mail, LimeWire, Folding@Home, iTunes, and iChat open. When I do, operations such as raising or lowering the volume via keyboard, clicking on menus, etc seem to be sluggish on reacting.
I am hoping that this is an issue of not enough RAM on the system. What do you think? Do you think this is an issue of not enough RAM, or just not enough GHz. I don't mind if an application takes a few seconds to load, but once it is up, I want it to react to my input immediatly. If I want to increase the volume, I want it to happen as soon as I hit the button.
I can live with the computer being a bit sluggish, although if it is simply "normal" to be this way, then I am kinda dissapointed in Mac. I am hoping that this is simply a side effect of 512MB of RAM rather than normal. I just want to make sure before I decide to get more RAM. If RAM will help out, I will go with a 1 GB stick from newegg for a total of 1.5GB or if one of my friends wants to upgrade thier new iMacs, i will give them the 512 and get two 1GB for a total of 2 GB of RAM.
Other than the slowdown when I have multiple applications running, I am loving the Mac, I just want to see if I can get it to be even better.
Thankfull for any advice,
Nathan