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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1794249" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>The spinning beachball is almost never the result of insufficient RAM. More often it's a failing hard drive, or a slow CPU/GPU. RAM may, repeat, may cause the beachball if the "pressure" on ram gets large. You can monitor memory pressure in Activity Monitor and if it's not green, then more RAM may help. </p><p></p><p>The old HHD in your Mac is a major suspect for the beachballing. Moving to an SSD will significantly speed up things. You may still get the occasional beachball, your system is seven years old, after all, but the SSD will significantly reduce boot time and the time to launch applications. Read and writes to the SSD will be much quicker as well. With SSD prices dropping, replacing your spinner with an SSD is a good investment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1794249, member: 396914"] The spinning beachball is almost never the result of insufficient RAM. More often it's a failing hard drive, or a slow CPU/GPU. RAM may, repeat, may cause the beachball if the "pressure" on ram gets large. You can monitor memory pressure in Activity Monitor and if it's not green, then more RAM may help. The old HHD in your Mac is a major suspect for the beachballing. Moving to an SSD will significantly speed up things. You may still get the occasional beachball, your system is seven years old, after all, but the SSD will significantly reduce boot time and the time to launch applications. Read and writes to the SSD will be much quicker as well. With SSD prices dropping, replacing your spinner with an SSD is a good investment. [/QUOTE]
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