You may be right Bruce - we'll see... stan
On Dec 24, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I'm sure you are going to just love the new system responsiveness and > that great screen, Stan. > > But I have one comment on your SSD choice: I think you made the wrong > decision there ... > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Stan Halpin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> So I ordered the iMac. I didn't max it out; e.g., I'll add memory >> from other sources. And I went with an old-technology internal drive; >> an external SSD is on order that will tie into one of the USB ports. > > By not booting from and running the OS from an internal SSD you are > missing out on one of the most important performance boosts you would > have otherwise received. > > The only reason I'm still using my 2007-era iMac is because I swapped > the internal HDD for an SSD device. I have only the OS and my home > folder (including Lightroom catalogue) on it; all my other data is > external on Firewire and USB drives. > > The difference between a main drive being HDD vs SSD is simply put: > _astounding_. None of the other system aspects represent a big enough > bottleneck to me to worry about an upgrade. > > -- > -bmw > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
