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It's probably bogged down by the harddrive, not the RAM.
by fredsted 8y ago
It's probably bogged down by the harddrive, not the RAM.
- hollerith 8y agoAgree. My 2011 Mac mini with only 2 gigs of RAM is almost as comfortable for web browsing as the 1350-usd brand-new Windows 10 box in the office with 8 gigs of RAM. A recent experience qualifies me to say that using a recent version of MacOS on a 5400-rpm hard drive is infuriating compared to using the same version of MacOS running on the same Mac with an SSD. My 2011 Mac mini has an SSD in it. Everything is fine with my Mac till a few months ago, when I get careless during an upgrade of MacOS with the result that my system is unbootable and I cannot wipe the SSD and re-install because there is data on the SSD I don't have backed up, so to recover I install an empty 5400-rpm hard drive I have lying around next to the SSD, then install the new version of MacOS onto that. Like others here, it amazes me that Apple still sells computers where even the system files are stored on spinning rust. Right after installation (of High Sierra) the aforementioned hard drive had less than 32 gigs of data on it. I am mystified why Apple doesn't solder at least that much solid-state memory to the motherboard.
- DelightOne 8y ago> I couldn't just reformat the SDD because there was data on it that I didn't have a backup for Not used time machine or is it not backing up all necessary?
- hollerith 8y agoI wasn't using time machine. (I am now.)