{"id":7834,"date":"2010-11-08T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:35:47","slug":"more-memory-or-an-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/7834-more-memory-or-an-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"More Memory or an SSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"stopwatch\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" \/>It\u2019s long been established that adding more memory to your Mac <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/apple\/memory\/Macbook_Memory_Benchmarks\">can improve its performance dramatically<\/a>; dollar for dollar it\u2019s still <strong>the most cost-effective upgrade you can make<\/strong>. But with the advent of the Solid State Drive (SSD) many arguments have been made that this new arrival is the new king of the upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019d love to sell you both <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/apple\/memory\/\">more memory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/internal_storage\/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce\">a new SSD<\/a>, sometimes that\u2019s just not within your budget. You need the best bang for your upgrade buck.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreting out the best upgrades you can make for your Mac is just the sort of thing our friend <strong>Lloyd Chambers of Mac Performance Guide <\/strong>goes into with his latest article: a case study on <a href=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/Mac-Upgrade-CaseStudy-MacBookPro2010.html\">upgrading the 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop and Lightroom<\/a> use. It\u2019s an informative read and, even though the data itself is focused on the 2010 MBP, the concepts behind the data are applicable across the board to pretty much any Mac.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the article\u2014and a whole lot more great performance upgrade information\u2014at the <a href=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/index_topics.html\">Mac Performance Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s long been established that adding more memory to your Mac can improve its performance dramatically; dollar for dollar it\u2019s still the most cost-effective upgrade you can make. But with the advent of the Solid State Drive (SSD) many arguments have been made that this new arrival is the new king of the upgrades. 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