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Macbook Late 2008 Lagging Issues
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1257597" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Mactracker and ifixit both say that model (late 2008 aluminum) can take 8GB of memory. Apple, however, specifies 4 GB.</p><p></p><p>I don't think the memory is causing the lagging. Open your Activity Monitor application from the Utilities folder and sort by process. Let's see if there is anything that's eating up the CPU.</p><p></p><p>Also, you might wish to download the free maintenance and cleanup utility <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx" target="_blank">OnyX</a> and run it in auto mode.</p><p></p><p>You should also verify what's running at startup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1257597, member: 46727"] Mactracker and ifixit both say that model (late 2008 aluminum) can take 8GB of memory. Apple, however, specifies 4 GB. I don't think the memory is causing the lagging. Open your Activity Monitor application from the Utilities folder and sort by process. Let's see if there is anything that's eating up the CPU. Also, you might wish to download the free maintenance and cleanup utility [URL="http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx"]OnyX[/URL] and run it in auto mode. You should also verify what's running at startup. [/QUOTE]
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