Slow macbook and can't figure out why...

I have a white mac book 2.1 intel core duo that has always been slow. It seems the drive is almost always reading and the beach ball comes up all the time. I originally thought it was the drive and I replaced it, but it does the same thing still. It's so slow that typing in google search often gets stuck. Almost everything I try to do on it gets the beachball.
Its only got 1gb of ram but it seems more broken than that. I've updated everything, run Onyx, replaced the drive.. still slow. I do watch a lot of Netflix streaming on this computer, could that have something to do with it? And Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hey isactobot,
1GB of RAM isn't nearly enough for Snow Leopard. Head to Crucial.com and use their memory scanner tool to see what kind of RAM you need and how much RAM you can install. You can buy from crucial.com, newegg.com, Other World Computing (http://macsales.com) or a number of other websites.
~Lyssa

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