Wow! Simply amazing! If I close all my apps and click shutdown, it takes 5 seconds for the screen to lose power. Once I hit the power button, it takes about 10 to 12 seconds to see my login screen. From there, it's another 10 seconds and I'm already on the internet.
Before the swap, it would take one to three minutes for the computer to shut down. It would take 5 to 10 minutes from the time I turned on the computer until I was back on the internet. And even from there, it was still choppy and unreliable.
Thanks again for your help and suggestions, guys! I still haven't maxed out the RAM. I'm still only running 8GB. (early 2011 13" MBP).
Oh, and if you guys missed it, I installed a Crucial 1TB SSD.
Tony.