I would say that more RAM would be useful, Bob (but 8Gb?). How about your hard
drive, though? Is that large enough or new enough?
I'll ask younger son, my Apple Creative.
Chris
On 26 Sep 2010, at 19:22, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Okay, so I'm running an early Mac Pro with 2, 3gig Intel dual-core Xenon
> processors, 4 gigs of ram, 500mb hard drive on Snow Leopard. The video card
> is a relatively new ATY,RadeonX1900. But the 'puter seems to be feeling a bit
> infirm, at least when futzing around with layered CS4 files. I'm wondering if
> another 8 gigs of ram would significantly speed things up. Frankly, I'm not
> in the mood right now to buy another computer. When I got this one I couldn't
> imagine how I'd ever need any more than a dual-core 3 gig machine. Phew! Also
> thinking of a RAID array to maybe make it faster, but if more ram won't help,
> I may have to go ahead and bite the bullet for more firepower.
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