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MacBook Pro hiccups
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I've gotten my MacBook Pro and it's really, really the nicest Mac I've had since I got my original PowerBook G3. JFYI: it's a 2 GHz MacBook with 1 GB of RAM and the 7.2k harddrive.
However I've some gripes and I would like to know whether some of you had the same type of problem I'm experiencing at times: I would call them hiccups: when I switch apps at times, they take a second to respond. A typical example is iTunes: say I'm working mostly with native apps such as iTunes, Mail, Adium and TextMate and I want to skip a song. Upon switching I would get the iTunes window and for something like a second or two the spinning beachball. iTunes wouldn't react to any of my user commands during that time.
I've checked with the Activity Monitor and the two cores aren't even under full load most of the time …
This didn't happen with my previous machine (PowerBook G4 1.25) with 1 gig of RAM and similar usage. I don't think it's bad RAM, by the way, the RAM was changed (my dealer accidentally left in two 512 MB modules instead of a single 1 GB module). (I'm going to get another GB this week.) Does anybody experience similar problems?
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I'm not getting any of that and I have the same machine bar the 7200 drive. I've never had a kernel panic, only ever see the beachball with Camino under Rosetta.
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Remember, the Intel version of OS X uses a good amount more memory, and you might be hitting that RAM limit sooner than you'd think. Swapping iTunes to disk would be a good explanation for the second or two wait you're experiencing.
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it really suffers that badly?
You need more than 1GB RAM when using 4 low power applications?
Blimey... more reason than ever to stay with my current tibook
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Originally Posted by threestain
it really suffers that badly?
You need more than 1GB RAM when using 4 low power applications?
Blimey... more reason than ever to stay with my current tibook
I went back to my TiBook for a few hours last night. Needed to clear it out so I could sell it. After a few weeks with the MBP, I felt like I was in a molasses factory!! The TiBook is so painfully slow in comparison, the screen is dim with a silent "f" and the TiBook sounds like a freaking 747 about to take off. The upgrade for me was as significant, if not more so, than going from a 400MHz G3 iMac to the 867MHz G4 TiBook.
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The machine is amazingly fast most of the time, smooth scrolling is just a bliss 
But sometimes, I'd get these hiccups. Apparently I'm not the only one.
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to be fair I get the problems too - but then I have an old rickety machine!
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