[Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX

[Dan Richardson (t)]

> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 23:07:38 -0500
> From: Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX -- was: PDF help,
> 	please
>
> 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?

Sounds to me like insufficient RAM. Every program takes memory. SSDs 
speed up boot time, and file access, but that's not what your computer 
spends most of its time doing. Buy more memory.

Dan