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

[Shel Horowitz]

Thanks, all. I have never even heard of SSD. But oddly, my newer computer
is the one that usually has me waiting for the beach ball of death, and I
think that one has flash memory rather than a physical hard drive. Of
course, I keep a whole lot of stuff running. My older computer typically
has no more than three programs at a time, with maybe three or four browser
tabs open in Chrome, one to two small Word docs, and my time clock program.
Back when it was my main computer, it was very slow. Now, it seems so fast.

Would SSD give me improvement in my laptop?

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions &
Folktography <tomadams at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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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