Speeding up my mac

[macusersince200]

I recently (in the 45 days) bought a 27" iMac with 2.66GHZ Quad Core processor and 8GB Ram.

I use it for minor video editing (with quicktime), some screen recording with Snapz, chatting service, a FireFox browser and multiple safari windows+tabs open.

However, I have noticed that the machine has slowed down. For example, when I switch tabs or Command+T for a new tab, it gives me the spinning multicolor ball.

There are several other problems such as delays when I click on icons, or pick "I" and "O" points in Quicktime, etc.

Any suggestions as to how I could solve this?

Thanks,

[Hellhammer]

Check your RAM usage from Activity Monitor, also look at the page outs. Might be that you are running low on RAM thus 8GB shouldn't hurt

[macusersince200]

I check the ActMonitor often and at most I am using 4GB.

When I called Apple to complain about the problems I listed above, among others they told me to do the same thing.

[Hellhammer]

I check the ActMonitor often and at most I am using 4GB.

When I called Apple to complain about the problems I listed above, among others they told me to do the same thing.

If you are using 4GB and you have 4GB, it's not a surprise that you are having slowdowns. An extra 2x2GB shouldn't hurt, bringing the total to 8GB

[TMRaven]

Do the slowdowns occur during scree recording? A live recording would tax the computer's hd, which would in turn slow everything else down on the computer.

[vixducis]

If you are using 4GB and you have 4GB, it's not a surprise that you are having slowdowns. An extra 2x2GB shouldn't hurt, bringing the total to 8GB

Please read the original post again... he already has 8GB of RAM.

[Gregintosh]

Could be a background program or utility that eats up CPU cycles or it could be HD. Id run a full hard drive test. Typically, when a hard drive starts going bad one of the earliest signs is slower performance.