Use a macbook without ssd. Use the exact same macbook with ssd.
Use a macbook without ssd. Use the exact same macbook with ssd.
Notice a difference?
Ssds can not properly replace a memory shortage since obviously ram is worlds faster, but they will make your entire system more responsive either way. You specs geeks can turn it as you like, that's the real world user experience.
That is a link to an old, but true thread. I agree with you, but I have no idea why you think what I wrote is nonsensical.
You explained it better. I worded it really basic and bad. I apologize for calling you a spec geek.It's because of the way you have worded it, especially using the words "make everything faster" and the bit that follows the "if".
"It's the other way around. An ssd makes everything faster if you have enough memory."
An SSD will not make "everything" faster and the things that it will make faster do not always depend on how much memory you have.
An SSD will not make a CPU or GPU intensive task faster, regardless of whether you have enough RAM, or not.
An SSD will make all file operations faster, regardless of whether you have enough RAM.
Even if you don't have a lot of RAM, an SSD will make your system faster, in comparison to the same system with a HDD, because swapping in and out of memory to the disk will be faster, even though the fastest PCIe "flash" drives are still at least 10 times slower than the typical memory we have in our Macs.
...and so forth and so forth.
Do you see now?
I don't mind a strong reply if there is a point to it. You rightfully told me off.No worries and thank you for the apology. I apologise too for my rather strongly worded reply. I think that I kind of got the gist of what you were trying to say in your initial post, but it was dangerously general and that leaves to confusion amongst users around these parts.
