xandman, could i know what programs are you referring to? and by slow do you mean while multitasking or basic load time.

hahahaha.
normal everyday-use programs. like safari, vlc and such.
loading is faster, i think. or maybe just psychological effect.
but my safari now runs more slowly. sames goes to vlc.
hmmmmm....

funny, a placebo affect would be you thinking that it runs faster :P

anyways, did you perform an smc reset after installing the ram? a pram reset wouldn't hurt too, methinks

i feel it's placebo effect also...
but i'll do further investigation...

btw how to do the smc reset? and also the PRAM reset?
i did it once...but cannot remember d...

Xandman, my personal observation. During my 2009 Mini days, my programs only seems to load faster once I've clicked it and it starts running from memory and I reopen it. If I've quit it and reopen it, it does not open faster even with extra dedicated RAM. This was felt when I've upgraded the memory to double its size. This was on FCE and Photoshop Lightroom. The bottleneck for me at that time, was the slow HDD speed.

Fast forward now, I believe the RAM made no difference even when I double it, the fast SSD compensates for it.

Take that observation for whatever it's worth.

So if that's the case...adding RAM wouldnt have any performance gain?


i should try SSD next...

Thanks String!

yeapppp

well extra RAM doesnt really improve performance if ur computer doesnt NEED that extra RAM. it's like buying a 7-seater SUV for a family of 5. there's just no benefit most of the times but it's good to know ur computer can handle higher memory requirements whenever then need arises

as for SSD, u get to reap the benefits all the time!

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: Sep 25 2011, 08:46 PM

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

also as stringfellow pointed out, you'd feel the performance boost more from an ssd upgrade as apposed to a ram upgrade. even though the improvement is there.

SSD is the best component upgrades of all. Because you feel the speed straight away. It just raw speeds, not computation speed like cpu.

that and depending on usage, this might be a good read.

http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/29/does-your-m...-a-ram-upgrade/

with just firefox, a 720p movie, itunes and jdownloader downloading my weekly shows in the background i've still 1gb of memory to spare.



of course it's a whole different story when the movie's replaced with photoshop and or maya running. to which i'm thinking of a ram and ssd upgrade myself.

This post has been edited by olivur: Sep 25 2011, 09:29 PM

olivur...
thanks for the link!

and next upgrade it will be an SSD!

be sure to do a thorough research prior to purchasing, as some ssd's just would not see eye to eye with certain mbp models, that and speed limitations. i.e <mbp 2011's doesn't support sata 3 speeds and so on :)

Check out the sellers in Garage Sales section, got an OEM X25M 160GB for RM500, only a month warranty though. Works great on my mid-2010 MBP .. the boot up is cut down to only 5sec .. and launching application is a snap too.

are you sure its only 5 seconds?
Vertex 3 also takes around 12 seconds

benchmark report ≠ real life figures :P

Yup, from the time I push the start button until it is usable.

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Added on September 26, 2011, 3:38 pmUnless you've many thing that are loaded up during startup.. Then it might be different tho'

This post has been edited by wiraone: Sep 26 2011, 03:38 PM

my SSD is 14sec boot up.

Haha.. okay, timed it with a timer .. surely, 15sec haha..

i almost PMed the seller...
until....



5 secs is very impressive i must say!

Even my 2011 Mini with Vertex 3 takes 12 seconds. With Splashtop Streamer, LogMeIn ,GMail Notifier loading up first.