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mac pro desktop 2.66ghz slow performance
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 482933" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>babarnette, I am not sure RAM is the answer. More RAM is always a good thing of course, but remember that until very, very recently, Apple sold new Macs with a default of 1 GB of RAM. I played with many of them in the Apple store and they performed well. 1 GB seems a reasonable amount of RAM in which to get reasonable performance on a machine you are using for routine stuff. mrdihn is doing routine stuff - web browsing, iTunes and so on. </p><p></p><p>I smell something else wrong here, which is why I was asking about Activity Monitor. I sure would hate to see mrdihn spend the money to get more RAM only to discover that something else was behind it all along.</p><p></p><p>OK gentle readers, anyone out there who has an Intel Mac with 1 GB of RAM? Can you comment please? Even better - someone with a 1 GB Mac Pro? Since the Mac Pro uses Xeons and the iMacs use Core 2 parts, perhaps there is a difference here in memory needs? I certainly hope not...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 482933, member: 17052"] babarnette, I am not sure RAM is the answer. More RAM is always a good thing of course, but remember that until very, very recently, Apple sold new Macs with a default of 1 GB of RAM. I played with many of them in the Apple store and they performed well. 1 GB seems a reasonable amount of RAM in which to get reasonable performance on a machine you are using for routine stuff. mrdihn is doing routine stuff - web browsing, iTunes and so on. I smell something else wrong here, which is why I was asking about Activity Monitor. I sure would hate to see mrdihn spend the money to get more RAM only to discover that something else was behind it all along. OK gentle readers, anyone out there who has an Intel Mac with 1 GB of RAM? Can you comment please? Even better - someone with a 1 GB Mac Pro? Since the Mac Pro uses Xeons and the iMacs use Core 2 parts, perhaps there is a difference here in memory needs? I certainly hope not... [/QUOTE]
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