iBook seems faster than 2.4 Macbook

[pugple]

I just got my new Macbook. Been installing stuff on it and it seems to go reaaaaaally slow. I installed quicksilver and whenever I pull it up and start typing it'll be really slow and show the rainbow wheel and won't respond for a few seconds. It's always pretty quick on my ibook.

Also, after moving stuff to application, the entire system freezes for a 15-30 seconds.

My iBook seems a lot faster with all these problems. What the heck is going on?

 

[DannySmurf]

You need to be more specific about your problem. It could be the hard drive, bad logic board, a software problem, or you could be imagining things.

 

[SFStateStudent]

Ditto...

You need to be more specific about your problem. It could be the hard drive, bad logic board, a software problem, or you could be imagining things.

How much RAM? Have you updated? Are you running Leo?

 

[pugple]

It's a 2.4ghz macbook, 2gb ram and running leopard.

I have no idea what's wrong with it. and it's not me imagining things either.

 

[Sun Baked]

It's a 2.4ghz macbook, 2gb ram and running leopard.

I have no idea what's wrong with it. and it's not me imagining things either.

All i can say is to look at the logs and the activity monitor, likely something is sucking CPU cycles (or erroring repeatedly.)

Edit: hopefully the HD indexing isn't stuck in rut.

 

[Chundles]

If you just got it then it's probably indexing the HDD for Spotlight. If there's a little pulsing dot in the middle of your Spotlight icon then it's doing the full index - usually takes a while and once it's done your machine is lightning fast but it's slow as molasses while it's going on.

 

[powerbook911]

Yep like the above post said.

It's probably indexing. Let it work and later it should be fast.

 

[paulmoscow]

Your problem may be related with old Power PC applications. Try to avoid programs that run in emulation mode.