Ram or SSD

[vmachiel]

Ok I have an 2010 i5 3m L3 cache, 4gb 1067 Mhz DDR3 RAM and 320 GB Storage MBP.

I want to upgrade it, what will give me an overall "less slowing down" machine: Upgrading to 8Gb of Ram, or an SSD. I need somewhere between 200-250 gb storage. Also, if RAM is the way to go, where should I buy it? I found the guide not very helpful, so if you bought some, where?
I live in Holland if that matters.

Thanks for the help!

 

[stridemat]

If you want a 'zippy' machine then the SSD is the way to go. At the capacity your looking at it will cost a bit.

Would you make use of the extra RAM? What do you do on your MBP?

 

[mulo]

SSD is the way to go. if you have a SSD should you run out of ram and start swapping the drive is so fast you wont notice

 

[vmachiel]

Mostly for surfing the web, studying (office 2011), I use the ilife apps ('11), SPSS statistics, Stata 11 and Matlab (sometimes)

Only game I have on it is minecraft

Will those apps need the RAM upgrade?

 

[stridemat]

Your current RAM capacity should be fine. Go with the SSD.

 

[mulo]

Mostly for surfing the web, studying (office 2011), I use the ilife apps ('11), SPSS statistics, Stata 11 and Matlab (sometimes)

Only game I have on it is minecraft

Will those apps need the RAM upgrade?

without taking it to the extremes, no

 

[vmachiel]

Ok thanks everyone, i'll look into the ssd upgrade

 

[adnoh]

go with ssd (intel x25m is good)

 

[maerz001]

have a look in the activity monitor. What does the system memory tab tells you about free and inactive MBs while running your apps? when you don't have much page outs and swap, you should be fine with your current configuration.