My MB is running really slow... help?

[tocyk]

Sorry for the repost of a topic that has been brought up a million times, but I am having a lot of trouble with my computer lately.

I'm running on the Silver 2.4ghz MBP from Summer of '08.
With any and all apps, especially FireFox, I get a lot of lag, so I've been seeing A LOT of beach ball. I did a bunch of cleans with Onyx, and that always fixes it for a while, but this problem has been pretty nagging. I am also running on Snow Leopard, have everything completely updated, and have around 57gb left on my HD.

If I can't get any help here, I think I might have to be one of those people who go in to Apple store to get their computer fixed... my battery needs to be serviced anyway. Thanks for any help.

 

[jmann]

Have you repaired permission in a while? That usually helps my computer.

 

[tocyk]

Have you repaired permission in a while? That usually helps my computer.

Just did it on my HD. Not sure if it really did anything.

 

[MrCheeto]

Holy wucking fack! A silver MacBook?!




My god, it's nearly as chutney as the mythical golden water wings...NO, sh! We must not speak of it, for it is legend!

At any rate, puh-lenty (Puh-lenty; n. more than plenty but less than enough) of people are reporting Beach Balls galore in the new shiny Snow Leopard! I would have never thought of the ursa ursa as a beach creature, but granted I said the same thing about Rosie O'donnel before she was beached in 1994 =\

Yeh, it's the Aluminum MacBook, all fudge ups are met with sarcastic retorts in my presence

 

[djourd]

When all else fails. reformat.

 

[tocyk]

Holy wucking fack! A silver MacBook?!




My god, it's nearly as chutney as the mythical golden water wings...NO, sh! We must not speak of it, for it is legend!

At any rate, puh-lenty (Puh-lenty; n. more than plenty but less than enough) of people are reporting Beach Balls galore in the new shiny Snow Leopard! I would have never thought of the ursa ursa as a beach creature, but granted I said the same thing about Rosie O'donnel before she was beached in 1994 =\

Yeh, it's the Aluminum MacBook, all fudge ups are met with sarcastic retorts in my presence

It was clever, I could appreciate it. Excuse me for calling it "silver", my aluminum MBP is being a beez.

When all else fails. reformat.

Definitely will probably what I'll have to do. I just have FCP on here and would rather not have to go dig for the discs and deal with the 60 hour install (exaggeration).