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Lumifer comments on How can I spend money to improve my life? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: jpaulson 02 February 2014 10:16AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 February 2014 02:12:01AM 3 points [-]

A SSD dramatically increases perceived performance of a computer beyond what you'd expect from benchmarks.

That really depends on what you are running. In the general case, if you get a LOT of performance increase from an SSD, this generally means your disk cache is way too small and you should start by buying more RAM.

Comment author: kalium 05 February 2014 06:10:54AM 1 point [-]

Not losing data when the computer is dropped or mishandled is an important performance feature if you're clumsy.