Snow Leopard - still slow?

[JasonBourne1]

I've just installed SL, but my MBP is still not fast as it once was. The whole reason of buying SL was to make my MBP work faster but i havent seen any change.
Is there anything i can do to speed it up?

 

[Jurwin]

Was this a clean install or upgrade? And what mac do you have?

 

[Richard1028]

I've just installed SL,

How long ago? Is spotlight just reindexing?

 

[Keniff]

I've not noticed any new/more speed on my MacPro, or on my girlfriends macbook I noticed it connects to Airport Express faster, but that's it.

Quicktime X is just had a makeover, but it's no good to me as I have Quicktime Pro 7, and there isn't any A/V controls in Quicktime X, but I was pleased to see it was still there (hidden in Utilities for some weird reason).

Safari 4.0.3 is playing up, I keep getting the tiny spinning beach ball of doom! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wait_cursor
It lasts so long, that I have to force Quit!
And I've Reset Safari, but the problem still continues 😡
Oh, and Time Machine is slower, as well!

Both machines are new, so I just did an upgrade.

I was under the impression things were going to start really flying, but to be honest, I've not really seen a difference between SL and Leopard.

I guess it's all under the hood with the "Nehalem" processors (so to speak)?

 

[MythicFrost]

I upgraded to SL on my Mac Pro, I'd say some graphics look a little smoother,
but I've not overly noticed anything, cover flow / icons do load a bit faster,
I thought starting up and shutting down might be a little faster too.

I've had no problems with any apps though.

Kind Regards

 

[JasonBourne1]

It was just an upgrade. Its the old MBP but i got it a week before the MBP Unibody came out so it had leopard pre-installed. Its over a year old.

2.4 GHz - Core 2 Duo
2 GB

Firefox is painfully slow

 

[electroshock]

It was just an upgrade. Its the old MBP but i got it a week before the MBP Unibody came out so it had leopard pre-installed. Its over a year old.

2.4 GHz - Core 2 Duo
2 GB

Firefox is painfully slow

Something is odd as I have the same MBP, although it's a 17" model with a 7200 RPM 160 GB internal drive and 4 GB RAM. On this setup now running 10.6.1, it's been a problem-free experience (including the latest Firefox) and not seeing anything out of the ordinary. So I'm not sure what to suggest in your case.

When it's slow, take a look at Activity Monitor -- is anything pegging the RAM use or swap use? Lots of disk I/O going on?