Mac Speed Issue (but not a slow down)

[Velvis]

I have a 1st Gen. Macbook Air with only 2GBs of NON-upgradable RAM. It is a fresh install of Lion, so its not a "clean up" type issue. Simply its an older laptop with a newer OS, but Lion is a requirement of one of the apps I want to use.

I was wondering if the Mac had any Windows Services type programs that run at boot time but could be disabled to get better performance out of it?

 

[300DDR]

If this is a fresh OS install, then no. If not fresh OS, then probably yes, depending how messy/careless/unaware the original user is. Check for stuff you don't want in library/startupitems and launchagents/daemons. I would backup first if you aren't absolutely sure what you're deleting. Don't delete anything in system folder.

 

[ac1]

Also try checking the Login Items Section of System Preferences > Users & Groups. However I don't expect there would be much, since its a fresh install.
Could also try removing the default widgets on the dashboard to free up memory.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

The minimum RAM requirement for Lion is 2GB. So if the machine is doing anything besides sitting idle you're going to notice a performance hit. Other than that check for free drive space since the disk is going to be doing a lot of RAM caching. But if it is the MBAir with an SSD that won't be too bad.

 

[Velvis]

Whats the RAM requirement for the version before Lion?

 

[dracken]

Whats the RAM requirement for the version before Lion?

Snow leopard requires 1gb of ram.