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    So I finally got my hands on a new (to me) macbook. It's not brand new but should be able to handle Traktor scratch perfectly fine, but I seem to be having some latency issues no matter how I change the settings. What's weirder is that my desktop pc is much more responsive in Traktor even with a higher latency set. I have tried with both traktor 2.x and 1.x, at first I thought it might just be that the mac couldn't handle traktor 2.0 but even on the previous version with the latency set at 1ms I was getting a delay.

    If anyone has any ideas id appreciate the help.

    the machine is a 2009 macbook with a 2ghz dual core processor and 3gb of ram.

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    What OS version, latest drivers? What's the buffer size? Is the hard disk close to full resulting in slow VM traffic?

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    Did you do a clean install after buying it or are you still running the old owner's OS or is the disk nearly full?

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    Clean install, running snow leopard with all the latest drivers. The hard disk is pretty much empty.
    Last edited by Conall; 08-27-2012 at 05:00 PM.

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    What audio interface? Latest drivers?

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    Sorry should have mentioned that, It's an Audio 6.

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    Try rolling back to an older driver then. Use this to uninstall it first and don't plug your soundcard until the reinstall is complete.

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    You say that you have 3GB of RAM, do you know in what configuration it is? I think your model only has 2 slots, you should either have 2GB or 4GBs. Macs don't like different amounts of RAM in the slots and they recommend each stick be the same size and type.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SirReal View Post
    You say that you have 3GB of RAM, do you know in what configuration it is? I think your model only has 2 slots, you should either have 2GB or 4GBs. Macs don't like different amounts of RAM in the slots and they recommend each stick be the same size and type.
    Yeah 2 slots, It has one 2gb and a 1gb. I upgraded it with some memory from a previous laptop. I'd heard that its better to have them both the same size but figured that a 2+1 would still be better than 1+1, was I wrong to assume that?

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    You need to check they are the same speed as well, otherwise it will work at the speed of the slowest.

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