Mac Pro2,1 (2008) Speed Issues Please help recent PC to Mac switcher HELP??

I decided to switch my PC to a Mac a year ago -sick of viruses etc. I bought MacPro, 2 30" cinemas and a few months later Macbook Pro. I run a financial trading business - Filemaker, Quantrix (financial modeling), and Excel and Firefox all day. However, I've never seen the throughput and speed that I expected. 40% of my commands produce the pinwheel - often for a simple search command in firefox. I've spent hours reading these forums with the understanding that anything nevative is delected by Apple. I have spent hours with Apple techs, who in most cases don't seem to know much about their own machines. I have a current clean install with all updates on the mac. No VM - Mac too slow to make it worthwhile.
Real question is how can such a highly touted machine be so slow in a workstation environment. I recently put together an Intel i7 920 machine with 6 GB Ram. I can be in Firefox on the mac, type in a google search & hit enter. Then go to the intel box, start Firefox, type in the same search, get the search results and click and be on the site - the speedy Mac Pro is still spinning pinwheels trying to do the search. Both machines connected to the same router going to the same IPS.
I know that the word slow is relative, but the secenerio above shows a 20-30 second difference between the 2 machines - Obviously, I ran the test multiple times. I know you folks love your Macs and believe me I did 6 months of research before taking the plunge, but it appears that I've made a $12,000 mistake.
The above is but one of the speed problems I'm seeing - financial modeling, spreadsheet - everything is slooooowww on the Mac. Any suggestions?
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OK. Let's try to get some things straight. You have a 2007 model, not 2008, if indeed it's got the machine ID of 2,1. There's no i7 CPU in that model. There are no internal connectors for separate power, although there is a free drive power connector for a second optical drive. SATA SSDs can be installed in any of the drive trays. There are third-party products that enable mounting multiple SSDs in the trays to be used in RAID arrays (I can't give you a reference, but you can Google for it or perhaps someone else will pop in here with the information.) The only other motherboard connectors are the two for use by video cards for power and the additional SATA drive connectors.
Application slowness is frequently caused by too little RAM, but you haven't provided any information on just how much RAM everything you have running is consuming. Your 8 GBs may be too little. We also don't know how large your boot drive is nor how much free space is available. Also since you have a used computer we don't know if you've reinstalled everything or are using an operating system that came on the computer. All this information would be helpful to know.
You might start by downloading and installing AppleJack - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - and reading the documentation, then run the software. Select About this Mac from the Apple menu and verify your machine recognizes all 8 GBs of installed RAM. Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder, select All Processes from the Processes drop down menu, then click twice on the CPU column to display in descending order. Is there a process using a large amount of CPU time? If so the force quit the process to see if that helps improve overall performance.
I'm not really familiar with your router, but if you have an Airport Extreme Base Station I would suggest using it for compatibility. However, if you change routers, then suggest you first power off the modem, router, and computer. Wait at least one minute. Turn on the modem and wait for the status lights to indicate connection to your ISP. Next turn on the router and wait until the status light shows communication with the modem (the green light on the AEBS.) Last turn on the computer. Check Network preferences to be sure you are getting a valid IP address. I suggest turning IPv6 configuration to OFF. You also might try adding a different DNS address such as 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. This is done in Network preferences for the Ethernet port. For best speed don't use wireless. Wireless is at best 1/3 as fast as Gigabit Ethernet.

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Thank you so much,
YahYah

What format are you using in iTunes to play them back? Are these the exact same files as the one, you are playing back in Quicktime 7?

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Hello, I'm running Verizon FiOS with the Westell 9100EM Modem/Wireless Router. I just recently upgraded the security settings on this (Upped to WPA2-Personal from WEP, Turned on MAC filtering, and turned off SSID Broadcast). I input all of the wireless devices in my home network (2 laptops, 3 gaming consoles, 1 netbook, 1 desktop w/ wireless card, and 1 wireless printer) into the allowed devices list, and confirmed all of them were able to connect to the home network after turning off the SSID Broadcasting.
The next morning I awoke to find that nothing could connect wirelessly, so I troubleshot that by just connecting again to the network by entering in the SSID when prompted, and entering in the security key. Went to work and came home to find that once again nothing was connecting wirelessly, and that I was getting "Low connectivity" warnings, and I could not connect to any internet service (browsers, IM programs, Windows Sidebar gadgets, etc.). In the midst of trying to figure out what was going on, we had a power flicker (gotta love Florida) which reset the modem and things came back on like normal.
Last night, I come home from work and what do ya' know... it's the same "Low Connectivity" error and symptoms as I just described, I try resetting the modem... nothing. I try resetting the modem and restarting the computer... nothing. Opened a command prompt and ran ipconfig /all and it pulled up an IP Address of 254.204.X.X (the x's are only there because I don't remember the last two octets), and so I checked the properties of the networking device on my computer to see if somehow a static IP had been set up, but it was all still set up to auto-assign everything. So, I started opening up the actual network properties and checked some boxes, changed a setting here and there, but stupidly didn't make any notes about what changes I made, and then the next thing I know the internet just came to life.
Tonight, once again, I come home from work and school, and the network is pulling the same thing, only this time, I was able to reset the modem/router and it seemed to fix the issue.
My question is this: Did I mess something up when I turned off SSID Broadcast, turned on WPA2-Personal, and set up MAC filtering? Or is there something wrong with the unit? Or is there something else going on here altogether?
If anyone could please help me with this, it would really be nice to get my mom off my back. Thanks!

You don't say what version of windows. I suggest you enable the SSID broadcast and see if that helps. If you are running WPA 2 with AES you are secure enough. The MAC filtering is adding extra overhead that is not necessary. I suggest you get rid of that. Anyone can just as easily spoof the MAC address and anyone can find the SSID if hidden. These are not security measures. WPA2 with AES is.

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Good Afternoon, I recently purchased an MSI GT72 2QD 216
I love the the laptop so far, but I am having 1 issue, I can't watch twitch streams. Everytime I try all I get is a sudden DROP in my connectivity
I usually am at a download speed of 50gbs+, whenever I start playing a video on twitch, or streaming pandora or even watching videos on youtube, I plumet to 3gbs (according to speedtest.net)
Is there something I need to do, or some setting I need to do to not have this? Its getting so bad I can't even watch anyone stream on twitch, meanwhile if I were to stream/play a game the connectivity isn't touched i'm perfectly fine.
p.s. I have also tried this on my older laptops and none of those have the problem. So its just on this laptop.
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Your laptop GT72 2Qx already supports 802.11b/g/n and 802.11a/c mode.
The MSI official driver will activate both modes (auto by default, you can check your WiFi card in Device Manager to see this).
So now it depends on the router you connected.
If your router also supports 802.11a/c, it should be able to establish two SSIDs at the same time, one is for 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz) and another is for 802.11a/c (5GHz). The users can select one of them to connect under corresponding frequency.
Some older routers can only support 802.11b/g/n and establish only one SSID. Even if it supports 802.11a, you still need the privilege to access the router and switch it to run on 5GHz (requiring router rebooting).

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Hello,
I am a frequent user of skype and last week itself, on thurs and friday i had two international sessions of two hours that were uninterrupted. Today, i tried the same on skype and it kept disconnecting and dropping. I thought it was a skype issue, and I tried google hangouts and same errors on both sides. Both of our internet connections are stable and working. He is utilizing skype from his mobile phone because we are utilizing teamviewer for remote desktop viewings... Someone please help me with this issue of connectivity. I performed all necessary updates for my yosemite (mac) and also reset my router and internet. went to speedtest.net am at 65mbps and 4mbps respectively..... I dont know what is going on its quite frustrating.
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Greetings all,
I'm new to the world of Mac and, to be honest, I'm loving it!
However, I have found a very small, but significant, irritation; when typing "IMAC" (as in Integrated Machinery Automation and Control), Pages keeps insisting that I actually mean iMac. It's driving me mad, and I can't work out what the issue is.
Please help...
Paul

Fruhulda,
Excellent. Problem solved, and thanks for your help. I must admit that Apple does seem to have a tendency to get a little fixated on itself, and the inability to change things like this just emphasises the point!
Thanks again,
Paul

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Ok I have had my iBook G4 since Dec. 28, 2005 and until today everything was going just fine....
Well this morning I went to wake it up to check my email and wham, the screen was all dark, I could see a faint image of my desktop, but barely visible. So I tried to wake it up, moved the mouse, tried the trackpad, spacebar and nothing worked, so I restarted. Then about an hour ago it did it again, and I had been using it about 15 mins before that. Only restarting remedied the problem, although the screen was dark until the apple apeard with the light blue screen behind it.
Does anyone know what could be causing this or how to fix it, I've heard my friend say she has this prob with her Powerbook, would it be the same issue??
Please help!!!
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Hi Anch66,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Do you have an d to be able to hook your iBook G4 up to a external monitor? You may want to try starting up in Safe Mode (<a href="<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393">Knowledge Base Document #107393 on How to Startup In Safe Mode). It is a stretch, but it may work. Do you have anything connected to your iBook? Do you have it plugged in? Have you recently installed or updated any software on your computer? You may want to bring it to your local Apple Store/Reseller.
Jon
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Hi Everyone, This is my first post here. I had an X on my battery (which seems to be a common issue) and I tried everything in the forums and it did not work. Later, I called apple support and they sent me a new battery. This did not solve the problem either. So, I sent the mac in for repairs and they told me that the logic board has corrosion due to liquid spill, and apple care would not cover it. The sad part is that I can vouch for the fact that there was no liquid on or around my laptop, since I use it for my research and no one can borrow it because of the restricted material (graduate school requirements). Please help, and let me know if there is any way out of this. Is there anything other than spillage that can cause this corrosion on the logic board?
PS: The logic board had to be changed within two months of buying it, when the display stopped working, and so this is the third logic board within a year (pretty exciting life for a little mac book!).

Thanks for the reply micheal, but is'nt it unfair that they think it is my fault, when my macbook went bad in a couple of months? I am sure it would be very difficult for me to prove that I am not at fault, but even they cannot prove their innocence (remember that the product has been opened by them and not me!). I feel like smashing the same laptop that I liked so much and buying something else, just to get over this. If any one has any experience with such issues, please let me know a sensible way of handling it. It is my word against theirs and I am losing sleep and possibly $1400 or so...any help is appreciated.

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