Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive?
Date	2015-08-14 13:57 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-08-14, Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-08-13 20:30:14 +0000, JF Mezei said:
>
>> On 15-08-13 16:21, Tom Evans wrote:
>> 
>>> I opened two more TIFFs and it says Photoshop is consuming over one gigabyte.
>>> 
>>> The TIFFs range in size from 75 to 100 megabytes each.
>> 
>> TIFF with compression take up far less disk space than when loaded
>> uncompressed in Photoshop memory.
>> 
>> Also, consider how many "history"  (undo steps) you have configured in
>> Photoshop.  Lots of history means that many copies of modifications are
>> kept, especially if smart editing not used.
>
> So wouldn't adding more RAM to the 16 megabytes of current RAM solve 
> the problem of the slowing Mac?

You haven't yet established that a memory issue is causing your
problems. So no, not necessarily - buying more RAM could be a waste of
money that won't solve your problems.

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JR

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Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-07-26 09:42 -0400
  Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-13 13:21 -0700
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-08-13 16:30 -0400
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-13 23:00 -0700
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-14 02:20 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-14 13:57 +0000
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-15 08:47 -0400
    Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-15 08:44 -0400
      Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-08-17 13:00 -0700
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-17 16:03 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-08-17 16:59 -0400
        Re: A.T.A. drive or Fusion drive? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-08-17 18:56 -0700

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