Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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freddo in reply to @kboy

Going from 4 to 8gb will make a huge difference
@n3il

not necessarily. If he's already got an SSD then OSX will create virtual memory (swap space) on the drive nearly as fast as using direct RAM, depending on what he's using it for

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chez_jay in reply to @freddo

Isn't SATA III about 600 MB/s max, and DDR3 RAM (which you'd find on a 2009 machine) about 10-20 times that?

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freddo in reply to @chez_jay

yes - you geek

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