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I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It slowed down my machine a bit, but most notible is the lag I get when using Firefox. It's so bad that I had to switch over to Safari, which IMHO is awful when compared to Firefox. Anyone else experiencing this problem after the upgrade.
Thanks,
-Adam
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
ds store wrote:
However now that the 8GB modules have dropped in price, and they still sell the non-retina MBP's, they should have also allowed these machines to have 16GB, but they don't becaues they want to push the retinas that have no moving parts so there is less after sale repairs and they get people used to the idea they can no longer upgrade their MBP's faster.
But in the present non retinas one can easily upgrade it themselves for a fraction what Apple charges.
So the best move would be to go with the non-retina MBP, w/ the lowest amount of RAM, and then buy two 8GB chips. I noticed that Apple refers to the memory as DDR3L, while it's just DDR3 at Crucial. What does the L stand for?
Low voltage.
Don't worry, Crucial will sell you the right RAM because they also sell it to Apple.
Crucial is the retail arm for Micron, the RAM makers.
I have the same running slow problem on my Macbook Pro 2.2 GHz. It just kept running slower and slower with Mail taking 2-3 minutes to launch and Firefox taking up to a minute to launch. If you launch Mail after opening Firefox it takes even longer to open. My solution have been to sometimes reboot. I'm running 8GB of DDR3 memory and rarely go under 3 GB of free memory. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Alan.
Firefox Runs Slow on Snow Leopard
