RAM or Processor?

When I open new programs, they'll often take quite some time to load up or run. There are just some processes that will also take a while. Is this due to the processor speed or is this an issue with RAM? As an example, when I open my computer from sleep mode, with no other programs running, I'll open up Safari and it takes about 15 to 20 seconds (quite a long time, in my opinion) to open up. What's the deal with that? Do I need more RAM or is this more related to the processor?

More RAM.

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let your computer fully wake up
-chris

it happens even 20-30 minutes into it. programs seem to be taking longer to respond now for some reason. i've tried restarting it, repairing disk volumes permissions, etc....

according to your mac specs.. your mac screams "¡Más espolón, por favor!!!"

err.. i mean.. "More ram, please!!!"

How much RAM do you have at the moment?

digital john said:

How much RAM do you have at the moment?

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512mb. I thought it would be sufficient... coming from Windows. I didn't realize that OSX was so demanding on memory.

diesel828 said:

512mb. I thought it would be sufficient... coming from Windows. I didn't realize that OSX was so demanding on memory.

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yea osx is a ram hog! but that is the nature of unix and linux. windows only has the capability of utilizing 1gig of ram i believe. the new powermacs can use 16gigs of ram for a good reason!
-chris

coach_z said:

yea osx is a ram hog! but that is the nature of unix and linux.

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I wouldn't say that the RAM hogging nature of OS X is inherent in Unix. I'm currently running a NetBSD machine with 16MB of RAM and a RedHat box with 32MB quite happily!