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At times when I attempt to open certain programs (like MS Word, or iMovie) i get the beach ball (more than I'd like).  I have only about 68 free gigs on the HD and was wondering if you thought It might speed it up a little bit if I removed 100 gigs worth of movies and stored them on an external drive instead.  Do you think this would speed up the system at all?
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Generally that amount of space available on your internal drive should not impact performance. You may consider opening the same programs without an external hard drive connected as these programs will first check externals for additional data. It’s possible an external drive may be the cause of your pause in performance. Of course you may also consider increasing the amount of ram in your machine as well.
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