Slow after 10.6 upgrade

My wife has a macbook ver 2,1 1GB ram. I have recently re-patition the HD and upgrade to 10.6. After the upgrade, she is now complaining it is going slower then when having 10.4.
My question is what should I do? Will increase to like 4GB ram help? Or should I just downgrade back to 10.5?

Snow Leopard has a min ram requirement of 1GB, and that usually is what's required to be barely functional. If you want to see if memory is being constrained, open up the Activity Monitor (on your hard drive in applications/utilities) and look on the system memory tab at page ins and page outs. If page outs are 10% to 15%+ of page ins, you have some memory constraints. A page out is when there's not enough memory, and OS X has to write some memory to the hard drive to make room for something else to run. Too much of this can impact performance. The page ins/outs reset with a reboot.
Do you have 10% or more of free disk space on your boot partition after installing 10.6? If you have a 100GB hard drive, you want 10 GB or more free for systems use. Less than that and performance can really suffer.
In the long run, you may find that adding more memory is worthwhile. Unless you need a new, larger, hard drive, I wouldn't let 10.6 alone be the reason to change.

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