[Hidden-tech] little rant about OSX

[Annamarie Pluhar]

Chiming in here.. I've seen clients get the "beach ball of death" when 
they had too much stored on their desktop.

Might that be going on, Shel?

Annamarie


On 8 Mar 2016, at 14:32, Dan Richardson (t) wrote:

>> 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
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