What else can I do to speed up my macbook pro

[Dinalli]

I have an early 2011 15 MBP with 2GHz i7 chip.

Recently Ive found in some cases its slowed down a lot and I get the beach ball. This tends to be when i'm working in XCode and running a few things.

So I updated my Ram to 16GB which helped for a little while. Im just about to replace my HDD with an SSD.

However i am wondering if there is anything else I should be looking at to speed things up.

Thanks

 

[Texxy]

I have an early 2011 15 MBP with 2GHz i7 chip.

Recently Ive found in some cases its slowed down a lot and I get the beach ball. This tends to be when i'm working in XCode and running a few things.

So I updated my Ram to 16GB which helped for a little while. Im just about to replace my HDD with an SSD.

However i am wondering if there is anything else I should be looking at to speed things up.

Thanks

SSD! Will improve so much and pretty much Ram and SSD are the top two things that actually work.

 

[Fairfax]

With the memory maxed out and after installing a SSD I don't see how your mbp can go any faster.

 

[Dinalli]

Thanks. SSD is tomorrows project (after backup of course)

Ive seen that you can overclock chips, is this something worth while ?

 

[glenthompson]

Have you run activity monitor to see what is using resources? While the memory and SSD will do a lot it's always better to track down the real bottleneck.