You can get a 120GB Samsung SSD on Amazon for $90. Put your movies and music on an external drive since it doesn't matter how fast you read/write those.

Small mac cursor. Mac mini fans waited a heck of a long time for an update and, upon witnessing Apple’s unveiling of the 2014 Mac mini during October’s iPad event, issued a collective sigh of relief.

You can take your current internal drive and put it in an external enclosure for $15. For the money, this will give you the biggest performance improvement. But, if you still want to upgrade your RAM, you can go to the Activity Monitor app, Memory tab, and look at 'Swap used' in the lower left corner. That will tell you how much data *would* be stored in memory if you upgraded. Check this number next time your computer is running slow. If it's 2GB or less, then you wouldn't benefit at all from > 4GB total memory.

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