very slow MBP (not much processor use)

[luminosity]

I just did a clean install of my fall 2006 Core 2 Duo MBP, using 10.5. It's still very slow, and more importantly (it seems), the processor is almost always mostly idle. It seems little wonder that everything is so slow. There's no way I would have accepted this out of the box in 2007, when I got it.

Is there anything I can change or do that would speed things up? I've only got 2 GB of RAM, but it definitely wasn't this slow in the beginning, and it should be pretty much the way it was then.

 

[Young Spade]

I just did a clean install of my fall 2006 Core 2 Duo MBP, using 10.5. It's still very slow, and more importantly (it seems), the processor is almost always mostly idle. It seems little wonder that everything is so slow. There's no way I would have accepted this out of the box in 2007, when I got it.

Do you have beach balling or is everything just slow? The reason I ask is that I think your hard drive might be failing in the machine.

After doing the clean install, did you restore the machine through Time Machine or did you leave everything blank?

 

[luminosity]

I left things blank. Things aren't really beach-balling. Everything is just uniformly slow, like traffic being reduced to one lane, perhaps.

 

[shardey]

I left things blank. Things aren't really beach-balling. Everything is just uniformly slow, like traffic being reduced to one lane, perhaps.

You should try running Xbench and post your results for the hard drive. This we can determine if your hard drive is running proper speed.