How do I reduce playback choppiness? And why did my magnetic timeline feature disappear? Clips no longer fall into place 'magnetically' fill in before/after another one like they used to.

I'm wondering why final cut pro x runs as slow as it does. Isn't it touted to be the best, fastest software out there? I'm running a 2011 model macbook pro 15", version 10.6.8 with the 2GHz intel core i7 and 4gb of ram. Anything I can do to make it buffer and just overall run faster? Clean out my hard drive maybe? And when I first got fcpx, the magnetic timeline feature worked as expected but now clips move freely wherever I drag them to, and if I try to put one clip between 2 different ones, it doesn't go in between magnetically but rather sits below the 2 clips and doesn't get played. I'm very confused. It's kinda nice to be able to put clips wherever I want and not in set locations due to the magnetic feature, but I also hate moving the entire lineup of clips just to squeeze an extra one in there, because (this is another weird issue i've been having) when I do that, the clips don't stay perfectly aligned like they were before I move them, they get all jumbled and such, i.e. some clips will move and be overlapped with other ones).
thanks a bunch,
Colin

You probably inadvertently switched from the "arrow" tool to the "position" tool .
Note the little button on the left above your timeline.
When the position tool is selected (just by pressing 'p'), whenever you drag items in the timeline they are positioned right where you drop them. The magnetic timeline is not "turned off". Indeed, a "gap" clip is automatically created to fill the, er..., gap. Notice the gap clip in the picture below:
Just press 'a' to select the arrow tool. And delete any gap clips that you don't want.
I agree that you can probably benefit from a number of tutorials that are available online. My favorite is at izzyvideo.com (it is free).

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