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

[Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography]

I second the adding of an SSD drive. I added one to my 2008 Mac Pro desktop
and it's added a whole new life to this beautiful, powerful workhorse!

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On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Chris Hart <chris at chrishart.net> wrote:

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> On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:31 PM, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> That might buy you enough performance to upgrade the OS, but would help
> either way.
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> -Tim
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> 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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> *Chris Hart*
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