sluggish macbook pro

[danerh]

Hi, I've just recently bought a macbook pro, and all was working perfectly. however now, while most things run smoothly, certain applications are running slow. excel in particular. what can i do to get this thing back up to its former glory of last week.
Any tips welcome.
Regards,
Dane.

 

[pianoman]

i think Excel will run slower than other apps because it is not a Universal app and will be running through Rosetta. the only ways i know to improve this is to make sure no other programs are running while you're using Excel (so that Excel can use all the RAM possible) or buy more RAM.

 

[ChickenSwartz]

How much RAM do you have installed?

 

[IJ Reilly]

How often do you reboot?

 

[danerh]

I've got 1GB of ram, and i don't reboot every day, but maybe once every 2 or 3 days. It has been rebooted serveral times today though, and several more since the start of the week though. I've been having a look at activity monitor, and its not chewing up an incredible amount of ram or anything, and then it slows down, and then will say its not responding for a while, then crawl along again.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Does it come back up to normal performance for awhile after a reboot?

 

[danerh]

No it hasnt been. i have ended up installing the windows version and am using the free cross over for mac emulator. not really desirable but i need excel for work. I think i'll take it to one of those mac genius bar guys and see what the problem may be. but still...any tips more than welcome!
Thanks.
Dane.

 

[IJ Reilly]

If the issue is limited to Excel, then it may be Excel or Excel/Rosetta specific.