On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:40:19 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 19/10/2016 16:26, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:47:55 +0100, Rod Speed
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news On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:03:27 +0100, Rod Speed

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news On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:54:16 +0100, Bod
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On 15/10/2016 09:44, alan_m wrote:
On 15/10/2016 01:23, David Paste wrote:
am I barking up the
wrong tree to assume an SSD will improve the snappiness of the
user
interface?)


When I replaced a traditional hard disk in my 5 year old laptop
with
a
SSD I noticed a faster start up but for day to day use no overall
difference in speed.




Hmm! that hasn't been my experience. I've changed several
laptops to
SSDs and *everything* is much snappier.

Agreed. I guess his day to day use is opening one word processor
and
using it for hours.

Nope, just only rebooting ever few months and not closing apps.

A very odd way to use a computer.

The only sensible way to use a computer used most of most days.

If I'm not going to use a program (note: not "app", that's a mobile
phone
word)

Wrong, as always.

for a while, I see no point in leaving it open.

Yes, you are that stupid.

The point is that it is vastly quicker to switch to an already
open app when you need to than it is to start it again.

Actually that's bull****. If you have plenty memory, the program code
stays in the disk cache when you close it. If you don't have enough
memory, keeping it open just uses swapfile.

Plus if you use an M.2 SSD system drive like I do , which is approx 4
times faster than a standard SSD and DDR 4 ram plus an i7 CPU, then
everything is even snappier.

4 times faster? I'm sure the one you told me about wasn't that much faster than mine (an M4).


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