[Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX -- was: PDF help, please

[Chris Hart]

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:31 PM, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You could probably improve performance quite a bit by upgrading the disk to an SSD if you haven't already.  Generally the "beach ball of death" shows up because the operating system is shuffling memory out to disk to make room for the demands of one or another program.  SSD is vastly faster at that, which winds up making the perceived performance of everything faster.
> 
> That might buy you enough performance to upgrade the OS, but would help either way.
> 
> -Tim
> 

Yes it would buy enough performance.  As I think I've mentioned on the list before, an SSD upgrade provides a huge performance improvement for all systems, but it's like a new lease on life for older Macs.

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