Hi everyone,
I have a mac mini 1,1 that has served me very well over the years. I have begun doing more work in CS4 lately and find that my performance degrades very quickly. I have the maximum amount of memory (2 GB) and replaced the cpu with a 2.33 ghz core2duo, but the system still hangs when switching applications.
What I'm noticing now is that when I'm working I have 7 or more swap files at peak usage. When I switch from photoshop to illustrator it feels like my entire 2 GB of memory is being swapped out and all I can do is wait for the system to catch up.
What I'm wondering is would a ssd would help with switching the swap files faster? I've heard that ssd performance is most noticeable when booting or shutting down, but what about performance at peak memory usage?
I have a mac mini 1,1 that has served me very well over the years. I have begun doing more work in CS4 lately and find that my performance degrades very quickly. I have the maximum amount of memory (2 GB) and replaced the cpu with a 2.33 ghz core2duo, but the system still hangs when switching applications.
What I'm noticing now is that when I'm working I have 7 or more swap files at peak usage. When I switch from photoshop to illustrator it feels like my entire 2 GB of memory is being swapped out and all I can do is wait for the system to catch up.
What I'm wondering is would a ssd would help with switching the swap files faster? I've heard that ssd performance is most noticeable when booting or shutting down, but what about performance at peak memory usage?
