R3Ware, Inc. / Robert R. Randall

My 2007 vintage MacBook Pro was starting to feel a bit sluggish.  Running several virtual machines under Fusion and doing work at the same time caused just too much stress on the disk i/o and 4GB of RAM.  So I went and did some research and did some upgrades.  I now have a 128GB SSD with the 2nd generation Samsung controller in it and it is amazingly fast.  I also discovered that I could upgrade the machine to 6GB of RAM.  It took some searching to find the right part but it was well worth the effort.  The machine is almost never disk i/o bound, even when swapping, and the extra memory makes a BIG difference when running VMs.  Much happiness for this old geek.  I also plunged into Snow Leopard which also helps since it does conserve some memory and disk space.  Long live my MacBook – it has to, it was not cheap