Thank you to all the other B&W and Macintosh owners that chimed in and tough me how to read Top and for those that simple told me from the beginning that 256 Meg of ram was not going to be enough memory to run my system and more memory would also speed up the system. Well I just want to let you all know I have a 256 meg dimm on the way and I am ordering another one tomorrow through OWC. As I have used TOP I found that I have just over 6 meg of memory left with these applications open. Mail, IE, iTunes and Limewire and of course the Finder. So more memory is needed but I hope I see the speed improvement everyone has been talking about with around 500 meg of ram as the basic requirement.