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

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Mar 7 23:31:07 EST 2016


At Mon, 7 Mar 2016 23:07:38 -0500 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> Would SSD give me improvement in my laptop?

Oh, yes.  I put a 128G SSD in my 'newer' laptop and disk I/O is wicked fast.

SSDs are coming down in price.  The days of 'rotating rust' will soon be over. 
I am seeing hosting services talking about using SSDs.

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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions &
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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
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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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