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What is the best way to speed up my computer?
I just put in a Seagate Momentus XT to try to speed up my computer and it didn't do much. I don't want to spend for an SSD. Got any other reccommendations?
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The best way to speed it up is to do a clean install of your OS.
If it still isn't fast enough, add some more RAM. It's quite cheap and easy and will work wonders
If it still isn't fast enough, add some more RAM. It's quite cheap and easy and will work wonders
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EDIT: sorry I didn't read your question right. Adding RAM would be the best thing and doing a clean install. But still, consider an SSD. The one I bought was 140 euros (I guess you can get it for 140 dollars over there).
I recommend adding RAM and an SSD. I have a MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2010) and bought 8GB RAM. While that made it noticeably faster I still wanted to try out an SSD-drive. A friend of mine recommended it as an upgrade over any other. That was last year. This weekend I bought a OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb SSD and did a clean install of OS X Lion. I must say I'm REALLY impressed by the speed after the SSD upgrade. Before it was also pretty fast but now it just soars. Get an SSD. Pronto :p
I recommend adding RAM and an SSD. I have a MacBook Pro 15" (mid 2010) and bought 8GB RAM. While that made it noticeably faster I still wanted to try out an SSD-drive. A friend of mine recommended it as an upgrade over any other. That was last year. This weekend I bought a OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb SSD and did a clean install of OS X Lion. I must say I'm REALLY impressed by the speed after the SSD upgrade. Before it was also pretty fast but now it just soars. Get an SSD. Pronto :p
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Have you tried to max our your RAM?
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1. You could install more RAM 2. You could clean out any unnecessary programs, OS's or files. Personally I would go to number 2 because its cheaper and is easier. Overall your last resort is more RAM.
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