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On May 17, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
> This machine is too old to spend money on.  But I was hoping that
> installing a video card with some memory would help with the redraw
> being slow.  So I'd rather not fix the problem by taking out the card,
> if there's another option.

If the computer is thrashing swap then the only fix is more RAM.

RAM is fairly cheap.  I recently bought 4GB for my MacBook Pro (early  
2008 vintage).  Cost about $70 and that includes the overnight shipping.

--Rich P.







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