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Macbook pro slow down
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These few days I have noticed that my MBP17" has a speed decrease after using the computer for more than 3~4 hours. So my computer slows down after 3~4 hours and it is pretty irritating. Few weeks ago it had a stable processing speed but now it has become unstable after hours.
I have seen major processing speed decrease in:
1. opening apps
2. switching apps
3. changing language (typing) input
is this normal? I wouldn't want my macbook pro to be like this after paying it for the high price. 
help?
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It doesn't sound normal. If you're using a lot of PPC apps you could be running out of RAM, though.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Hmmm.. I wonder if the temperature is messing up the speed..?
I have 2g ram and it says that i used up 400mb of ram..
it shouldn't be this slow should it?
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which apps are you using? running on more than 3-4 ppc apps could bring any mbp to a crawl seeing how rosetta LOVES ram.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Originally Posted by drqoo3512
Hmmm.. I wonder if the temperature is messing up the speed..?
I have 2g ram and it says that i used up 400mb of ram..
it shouldn't be this slow should it?
No, it shouldn't be that slow, and no, temperature has nothing to do with it unless the fans are blaring due to a temperature malfunction.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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ahh! PPC apps!
sorry i am new to OSX only for a month..
soo..
this is what i open when my computer starts to be slow after 4 hours:
1. adium
2. dragthing
3. messenger:mac
4. itunes
5. skype
6. dashboard (closed)
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rosetta is what eats the ram up. when running applications that aren't universal (recently released apps made to run with intel chips) they use rosetta to run them, which will use a lot of ram and tend to run a little slower than a ppc mac.
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i dont think any of the apps are the culprit. how much hard drive space do you have left?...having little to no hard drive space would cause slow downs when paging out.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Adium 0.89.1 is Universal
Dragthing 5.6.4 is Universal
Messenger:Mac, why are you using this? You have Adium. It's NOT Universal.
iTunes is Universal
Skype is Universal
Dashboard is Universal BUT there may be a Widget on there that is slowing things down or eating RAM, try closing all your Widgets.
Your computer definitely shouldn't be slowing down. Stop using Messenger:Mac and see how things go, you don't need it anyway.
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uh.. 35gb left?
ok..
i'll stop using messenger:mac and see how it goes!
thanks guys
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