Tradd
5-30-11, 11:27pm
I have a base model MacBook that I bought in February 2008. It came with Leopard. I upgraded to Snow Leopard last fall.
Memory is 1GB. Not sure about my hard drive size, but system shows I have 40.25GB free.
I'm beginning to get the spinning beach ball more often. Need rrrrr
I'm not running any hogging software. I use Firefox 4 with Ad Block Plus being the only add on. I have Picasa photo software (which I only use for uploading pics online to Picasa). OpenOffice 3 was seeming pretty slow, so I just ditched that today and installed LibreOffice 3 instead.
I'll get the spinning beach ball even if all I've got open is Firefox or iTunes and I'm trying to move the scroll bar down within the application and I get stuck by the danged spinning beach ball!
All my software is up to date. I've got maybe 1500 photos (I recently deleted a bunch I didn't need) and an iTunes library of maybe 30 albums and a whole slew of podcasts. Not a terrible amount of documents, either.
So I don't know what the issue is - maybe I just need to add more memory? I love my MacBook and want to keep it going for a good while!
And yes, I do my back-ups! I used to use Mozy (in the cloud) but they were getting too expensive so I got me an external hard drive lately and use it for my Time Machine backups.
Help! It's frustrating! Thanks!
Memory is 1GB. Not sure about my hard drive size, but system shows I have 40.25GB free.
I'm beginning to get the spinning beach ball more often. Need rrrrr
I'm not running any hogging software. I use Firefox 4 with Ad Block Plus being the only add on. I have Picasa photo software (which I only use for uploading pics online to Picasa). OpenOffice 3 was seeming pretty slow, so I just ditched that today and installed LibreOffice 3 instead.
I'll get the spinning beach ball even if all I've got open is Firefox or iTunes and I'm trying to move the scroll bar down within the application and I get stuck by the danged spinning beach ball!
All my software is up to date. I've got maybe 1500 photos (I recently deleted a bunch I didn't need) and an iTunes library of maybe 30 albums and a whole slew of podcasts. Not a terrible amount of documents, either.
So I don't know what the issue is - maybe I just need to add more memory? I love my MacBook and want to keep it going for a good while!
And yes, I do my back-ups! I used to use Mozy (in the cloud) but they were getting too expensive so I got me an external hard drive lately and use it for my Time Machine backups.
Help! It's frustrating! Thanks!