New MacBook 2.4 is SLOW

I got a new MacBook 2.4 Ghz with stock 2 GB of RAM. Prior to that I had a 3-year old MacBook with 1.8 Ghz processor, 2 GB of RAM and an upgrades 7200 RPM hard drive.
What has really surprised (and disappointed me) is that my old 1.8 Ghz MacBook was much snappier and more responsive than my new one, despite a much slower processor. Can't be the memory, because it also had 2 GB.
I suppose it could be the 7200 RPM hard drive, but I wouldn't have thought it would make such a big difference.
Any other possibilities come to mind? I've run system maintenance with Cocktail and rebuilt the directory using DiskWarrior (shouldn't be necessary with a new computer), and nothing has helped.

More opinion...
Logic would seem to indicate that adding more RAM would make a greater difference in performance because if you're short of free RAM, things get buffered to the much slower hard disk.
In practice, I didn't notice ANY performance boost when adding 2Gb (total of 4) to my son's MBP 2.26Ghz with a 5400rpm 250Gb factory disk. He's using 10.5.8, but he's running Mac Office 08, Safari or Firefox, Mail, and rarely Windows Office 2007 under Vista/Boot Camp. I think it's because the native Mac applications run pretty well in 2Gb or less, as do Windows Vista and Office 07.
He owns copies of 10.6.x and Windows 7 but hasn't installed either one yet. At the moment he's back to 2Gb because of repeated kernel panics caused by a bad memory card.

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