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4GB + HDD was a dead combination ever since 10.7.

Fresh Mavericks setup + a Safari window - 3.7GB or RAM.

Just upgrade mate. It will make a huge difference.

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Lower your standards -- I've been using that for years. ;-)

When SSDs big enough for amateur photographers are affordable, I'll consider the switch.

The new MacBook Pros all have USB3, as well as Thunderbolt, for external drives. Or get a NAS; I have 2TB in RAID1 and it cost me under $300.

care to elaborate how you pulled off 2TB/RAID1 for under $300? I'm undertaking a similar project soon and am looking for advice

I got a couple of 2TB WD Greens for $85 apiece and a ZyXEL NSA221 two-bay NAS (some ARM chip running what I think is Debian but I've never bothered to look) for $120. I think that one's discontinued now, though.

Thanks for the response; what is your take on replace the ZyXEL with a RaspPi?

No idea. I assume it'd work, but how will you connect the drives?

You need to define what you mean by "big enough" and "affordable", considering there are now 1TB SSD for ~$500, which I personally consider both "big enough" and "affordable enough"

That's plenty big enough, but kind of pricey compared to $65 for a 1TB hard drive. Try to get either of those capacities in a laptop (I take pictures when I travel), and the gap gets even bigger.

I didn't mean change the machine, just install more memory.

16GB is roughly $100.

> 16GB is roughly $100.

Depends on the vintage of your laptop. Cheapest I can find on Crucial US at present is $164 for 16 GB DDR3.

For 2008 laptops, DDR2 is coming in at $220 for 8GB.

so, I should stay on snow leopard? years old install + chrome uses 2.6GB

snow leopard has ZFS, stay for that alone.

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