Re: RAM on a mac

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

Performance wise, you might be better off investing in a solid state
hard drive unless you are running 64bit or multiple 32 bit
applications (even then..  SSHD would be my choice).

some info (price and models are dated):
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/10/the-state-of-solid-state-hard-drives.html


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Louie Angulo
> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> does it make a big difference in performance?
>
>
> If you run large sample libraries, that needs to stay pre loaded, it
> makes sense to run applications in 64 bit mode in order to have access
> to more than 4 GB RAM. I don't think 4 GB or 16 GB would make much
> difference in other user scenarios.
>
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