Can I ask about Ram again?!?!

[mac98aop]

Hi

It's just I am seeing the pizza wheel a little more, and there are little graphics glitches and lags with animations, and if I mirror a movie to Apple TV for the children, it's not easy to carry on working with the lag.....

I've got 4GB with an early 2011 Macbook Pro. Would 8GB fix the above, or do processor speeds and graphics cards control such things?

I'm reluctant to update RAM if it won't fix the above, as otherwise all is working so well with Mavericks.

Thanks

Adam

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

What's your graphics card? Lag when airplay mirroring is more likely to be graphics power than ram, but I went for 16GB in my 2011 MacBook Pro and it's still going strong, although it's also got an ssd drive in it which helps

Regards

Sam

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[John Patrick]

From what your describing it might be the hard disk, if you upgrade ram/cpu/graphics/hd your might simply more the bottleneck.

If your streaming to the Apple TV what will be reading the hard drive and using the network, very little cpu and ram would be needed.

What applications are you trying to use as those might be cpu, ram or hard disk limited.

John

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[Adam Pymble]

Sam

The graphics card is Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

I'm tempted by 16GB as the prices have just dropped a little, but I can't stretch to SSD and I think that'd help the most!

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[Adam Pymble]

Thanks John

I don't use any particularly intensive apps... just general day to day Mail, Things, Calendar, Pages, Safari....

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[Graham Perrin]

On Monday, 18 November 2013 22:28:03 UTC, mac98aop wrote:

 

…  the pizza wheel a little more

… 4GB with an early 2011 Macbook Pro … I'm reluctant to update RAM if it won't fix the above, as otherwise all is working so well with Mavericks. 

Use iDefrag (there's a free demo) to see whether the catalog file or attributes file is fragmented. 

Is the disk solid state, or hard? 

If it's hard: slow or fast spinning? 

[Graham Perrin]

On Sunday, 8 December 2013 11:54:33 UTC, Graham Perrin wrote:

Is the disk solid state, or hard? 

Sorry, Adam, ignore that question. I see that you can't stretch to SSD.  

There remains the question: 

… slow or fast spinning? 

Also, if you can't stretch to solid state, you could get considerable benefit from an upgrade to sshd (hybrid).