But even with the MBP, some slowness seems to sometimes appear in everyday usage (Parallels 6/Windows7, Firefox, Photoshop, Mail, iTunes always opened), specifically related to the disk activity (a 5400 RPM 320 GB, Hitachi drive). My MacBook Pro, Core i5, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HD, has been a real pleasure to use my previous machine was an old PowerBook G4, as slow as you can imagine. Advantages, in my case, are obvious, and, so far, with no issues at all. I don't recommend doing it in previous OSX versions, or if don't want to take risks. It involves disabling the dynamic pager daemon and stop using virtual memory at all in Snow Leopard. This hint is the result of an experience I tried in the last few days.
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