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Am 2015-12-09 um 21:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> Did you get an SSD as well?

sure. I even look for the PCIe variant (just contacted my dealer for
this option ... forgot in the first place).

I am on SSDs for years now on desktop and laptops.

> It's one of the biggest performance improvements you can make[1] and to
> be honest is worth more overall than expensive CPUs.
> 
> [1] The other huge improvement is another 8G of RAM and make
> /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs with default settings (it will use up to 8G RAM
> on demand). Everything you build will fit, including firefox and libreoffice

I have that right now, yes.

The RAM was out of stock there so I ordered the 8g-default and will add
more later.