Slow since upgrading from 10.4.11 to 10.5.8 Snow Leopard

Hello,
In order to sync with my iphone I recently installed Snow Leopard on my MacBook and since then it's running very very slowly. I was wondering why this might be and what I can do to resolve it. From doing a little research it seems it might be to do with a lack of memory, but I don't seem to have that much on my mac. Any thoughts gratefully received.

Put at least 1 GB RAM for Leo to run decently or stay with Tiger, which is reasonable with 512, but also better with 1 GB. Your machine must support at least 2 GB, if not 3 or 4, put as much as supported.
download Mactracker, a database of all macs, identify your model, and see what memory you need and how much is supported. It is worth it. If you MB is not the first, early 2006 series with core duo, you may upgrade to last OS, Lion. if that first series, stop at Snow Leopard, but more memory is mandatory.
Go to upper left corner (the Apple logo), click, go to About this Mac, More Info, copy serial no., then go to a site like
http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php
and see when manufactured and where + other details.

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