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September 30, 2011

simple and inexpensive improvements

I finally got around to increasing the RAM on my two year old iMac.  It came with 4 GB and I've been happy with the machine, but I do use a few memory intensive applicaitons (Mathematic and Photoshop) that tend to use a lot of memory and there is quite a bit of inefficient swapping as virtual memory is invoked.

Moving to 8 GB cost under $50 and the surgery took less than ten minutes - most of that being finding the rigtht screw driver.  Absolutely trivial and a large performance increase.

 

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