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The Scimonoce Software folks answered my inquiry about the slow launch times of SEE Finance and acknowledged that it does load its entire database into RAM at launch. However, I¡¯ve discovered a few other oddities that puzzle me.
I¡¯m guessing (wildly guessing) that there are two bumps in the road to launch. One is probably the 8 GB of total RAM; the second may be the Fusion Drive, and how/where the OS puts stuff (rotating platter vs the very small SSD that¡¯s part of the Fusion drive) when I launch the app. Despite the videos I¡¯ve watched regarding upgrading the innards of a 21.5 inch iMac (which should be accompanied by the March to the Gallows Scherzo from Berlioz¡¯s Symphonie Fantastique as a soundtrack), I think I might take that leap, but I certainly won¡¯t tell my wife first! While I¡¯m in there, if it¡¯s possible I¡¯ll swap out the Fusion Drive and replace it with a fast SSD. If no one hears from me for a few days, you¡¯ll know what I¡¯m doing (but it won¡¯t be now; I¡¯ll give fellow list members plenty of time to try to talk me out of it). The curious cat in me will also want to experiment a bit to see which wrinkle in the architecture of my iMac is the greater impediment to full-throttle performance (RAM limitation or Fusion Drive). To sort that out, I think I¡¯d have to do the upgrades separately from each other, but I certainly don¡¯t want to peel that 4K display off the front of the so-thin chassis twice. I have an external monitor; does anyone know if the iMac can be operated without the screen in place hiding its internal organs? Jim Robertson |
