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Agreed on SSD to improve performance but prices are still high and I like all my installation files on one partition in the C:\ drive so a 500GB SSD is not an option for me and many others.
On ram, I disagree. Ram can only and will only speed up your system of you actually make use of it. My system idles at 1GB out my 4GB and I never go over 2.5GB regardless of what I doing, bare in mind I do not use intensive Photo and Video editing software. So having 4/6/8/12GB of ram does nothing for me and for most users out there ATM, IMO.
This is where ReadyBoost kicks in, if you do not already own a SSD or 10, 000 RPM hard drive then ReadyBoost will help. ReadyBoost does little to improve on program loading and Windows startup times on system already equipped with 4GB or more ram. However, I noticed significant boosts when loading Photos/Videos and thumbnails of Photo/Video files even with 4GB of ram.
USB flash drives are cheap and you can always make other uses for them if you decide not to use it for ReadyBoost. But if you buy 8GB ram and never go over 4GB or buy a 128GB SSD for 4x the price of a 500GB hard drive knowing that you'll use 500GB then that's what I call wasting money.
Last edited by Nemix; 06 Dec 2010 at 04:09.