my mac book pro has been acting very, well, slowly...

[zipper1022]

my computer has been extra sluggish lately...

i chat freezes as it opens and then unfreezes, it takes about 5 minutes for me to start workgin after turning it on...

its just slow...

what sort of maintenance should i do on it?

i have about 4 gb left on teh hard drive, should i start by clearing it out, does that make it slow?, i dont know what to do...

 

[NAG]

Whoa, you need to get some more hard drive space. My rule of thumb is keep 10% of your hard drive free. Buy an external and put stuff on that or replace your internal with a bigger drive.

 

[zipper1022]

i have an external but i do video so it fill quickly, i feel liek that not enough though, there has to be sstuff i can do to make this puppy faster

 

[Batt]

Whoa, you need to get some more hard drive space. My rule of thumb is keep 10% of your hard drive free. Buy an external and put stuff on that or replace your internal with a bigger drive.

What he said. My rule of thumb is 15%. You've gotta get rid of some stuff.

 

[zipper1022]

okay i did that, i now have 15 gbs free on my 150 gb hard drive. what next

 

[scienide09]

Try and get rid of more, if you can. Really, a laptop is not meant to be a permanent storage solution, in the same way that a workstation is.

What version of OS X are you running? Did you install Leopard, and if so, did you do a clean install or an archive and install? Some users have found that archive and installing creates a bit of instability.

If you do a lot of video work, I wonder if extra RAM would help. What programs are you using to edit? Maybe someone more experienced with video editing can speak to this.

 

[zipper1022]

i am running 10.4.11

i have 2 gb ram and stuff idk, i think its because i have alot of widgets and a bunch of things in the top bar i.e.: lab tick, switch res x, google notifier, i clock.

im gonan try and get rid of some of those