You may get longer battery life from the 1 GB stick.. if it cuts down on paging to disk.
A newer hard drive (or SSD) will improve performance of disk intensive operations such as booting, etc. I noticed an improvement when upgrading my MBP from a 160GB 7200RPM drive to a 500GB 7200RPM drive. Haven't gone the SSD route yet - Not enough storage space. Brian On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > If you're looking for more battery life, an SSD would definitely help. I > don't think you'll see a significant performance gain, however. > > I am still skeptical if SSDs, in that they have a finite life, so I am > wondering how that is going to translate out for longevity... > > Dan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 29, 2011, at 11:36 AM, "Allan Streib" <str...@cs.indiana.edu> > wrote: > > > I will be upgrading the RAM. A 1GB stick from OWC is only $36, with > > some (although probably not much) credit available for returning the old > > stick, so it hardly makes sense not to. > > > > What I would be after in the SSD are some additional speed gains, also > > lower power consumption/longer battery life. > > > > If I do actually get the SSD I'll try to benchmark various things > > before/after to see how much of a real-world difference it makes. > > > > Allan > > > > > > On Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:51 AM, "Dan Penoff" <lwb...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> I don't think he's in a pinch for RAM, he's just looking to get as > >> much performance out of the machine as possible. > >> > >> He should definitely move up to a gig of RAM, without question. As > >> others have said, this is by far the biggest bang for your buck. > >> > >> After that, I would move to a faster hard drive, however, unless he's > >> doing work that is disk intensive, he's not going to see a significant > >> performance gain from this. > >> > >> I would not recommend an SSD in this case, as the choke point is going > >> to be the hard drive data bus, and nothing is going to change that. > >> > >> Dan (former 15" G4 PB owner) > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
