On Saturday, 23 November 2013 08:24:49 UTC, mac98aop wrote: > … do I go for 16GB Ram or 240GB SSD or ideally both? I'm most interested > in speed performance improvements, and recall Sam has said the SSD will > give me the most noticeable impact. > > I'm not worried about boot time, but about day to day processing (opening > iPhoto, Safari, Alfred etc...). … >
If you're happy to habitually sleep the Mac (not shut down or restart), then the *greatest amount of memory* will allow the OS to make great use of the unified buffer cache (UBC). Second and subsequent launches of apps will be much faster than first launch. The benefits of the UBC go way beyond apps. Broadly speaking, expect *any* data that's read from permanent storage (hard, hybrid or solid state) to be cached in memory – unless the app/process reading the data uses F_NOCACHE for a file. Then (without wishing to complicate this topic): the money that you wish to spend on an SSD could be *much* more productively spent on an sshd. More storage your money. I have no idea about prices, sorry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
