On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 21:10:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
As regards the SSD, it's still a lot of money. Are those hybrids any good? Performance wise? E.g.:
Theoretically yes. Practically probably not that much for most typical workloads.
Looking at your scenario: The best performance/price ratio for you is quite doubtlessly RAM.
8 GB should do fine. With some VMs and lots of browsing and possibly movie transcoding you might want to even consider 16GB.