increasing performance of my macbook pro

[ethan101]

hi i have recently purchased a macbook pro 2.16 1g of ram and i was wondering what i can do to increase the performance of my mac. for example increasing the speed of downloads?

thanks for your time

Ethan

[Apple Corps]

ethan - one important question is what is the slowest link in your download process? Find that and that will be the place to start. For example, adding additional memory and / or a faster hard drive will not help download speeds if you are on a dial-up modem. Upgrading to a faster DSL or cable modem speed will help in that area. What software / applications are you trying speed up? Some are cpu intensive others are gpu intensive.

I have wasted some $$$ in the past chasing a performance increase without first understanding what was involved.

[Aniej]

this is highly dependent on the internet service you are using. unless you are downloading and working on an application that uses a ton of ram, I do not know that a boost from 1ram will do much of anything for you.