External Monitors w. MacBook Air 2010

I bought my new MacBook Air to use often with external monitors up to my 30 inch Dell.
Problem is: The combination does not return the maximum 2560x1600 pixel resolution of the monitor.
I was assured by multiple people at the Apple Store that all Mac products have top end graphics cards and that any Mac would power the large external monitors. My Air is the 2gb model with 256k ram. I have tried two different Mac accessory adaptors for my SVGA monitor.
Any solutions??

The other quoted specs are for the internal display. To get your desired resolution, you'll need the dual-dvi adapter that was already mentioned.
Your resolution is supported per the apple macbook air spec page: "Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors"

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The performance of my Macbook Air 2010 has slowed to the point where I can hardly complete basic tasks. For comparison, I use a MacBook Air 2013 at work and do not experience the same performance issues, so I believe my expectations are not unreasonably high.
My Question
Can you please advise on what I can do to troubleshoot? I've tried the solutions listed below, all of which have failed.
I'm grateful for any help you can offer.
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Switching contexts or tabs, operating within applications (such as Chrome, small Excel spreadsheets, navigating files), and browsing the Internet has become a slow, laggy and crash-filled experience.
When right-clicking an icon and selecting 'Open With', Finder frequently times out or requires time to populate a list of applications.
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Memory: 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Storage: 87GB free of 250GB

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