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RAM or SSD upgrade?
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<blockquote data-quote="jcasetnl" data-source="post: 1533798" data-attributes="member: 309978"><p>How much RAM do you have currently? That's really the key question.</p><p></p><p>If you have 4 GB of RAM already, more RAM will likely not help. </p><p></p><p>Even if you have 2 GB of RAM, it's likely to be a marginal boost. </p><p></p><p>If you want to know for sure, fire up your video editor with a project, then start up Activity Monitor (in Utilities). Look at the amount of INACTIVE system memory. If it's significant, like > 1 GB, you don't need RAM. If it's low, like < 100 MB, then more RAM might help.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I would go with the SSD. It will make your video projects load a lot faster and it will also make the rest of your system FLY. Note also that many video editors do not just load all the clips for a project. They dynamically load and unload video as needed so a SSD will make a huge difference for that. </p><p></p><p>...do you people think you can drop 30 GB on a timeline and it's all loaded in RAM? hahahaha. No.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you should go with the 240 GB. 120 GB will fill up fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jcasetnl, post: 1533798, member: 309978"] How much RAM do you have currently? That's really the key question. If you have 4 GB of RAM already, more RAM will likely not help. Even if you have 2 GB of RAM, it's likely to be a marginal boost. If you want to know for sure, fire up your video editor with a project, then start up Activity Monitor (in Utilities). Look at the amount of INACTIVE system memory. If it's significant, like > 1 GB, you don't need RAM. If it's low, like < 100 MB, then more RAM might help. Personally, I would go with the SSD. It will make your video projects load a lot faster and it will also make the rest of your system FLY. Note also that many video editors do not just load all the clips for a project. They dynamically load and unload video as needed so a SSD will make a huge difference for that. ...do you people think you can drop 30 GB on a timeline and it's all loaded in RAM? hahahaha. No. Yes, you should go with the 240 GB. 120 GB will fill up fast. [/QUOTE]
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