Installing RAM fixed my very slow Mountain Lion

I recognize this isn't really a practical "fix" for many people but I just wanted to share my experience.
Bought a new Mid-2012 15" MBP (2.3 GHz i7 with 4GB RAM) with Mountain Lion installed direct from Apple, set it up by migrating my accounts, data, etc. from an older MBP running Lion. I was very disappointed with how appallingly slow everything was, particularly when logging in, switching user accounts, and Safari. It was all just crawling crawling along. My plan all along was to upgrade the RAM anyway so I installed 8GB and now.........
My cold boot went from 80 seconds down to 48, and my user account login from the main screen went from 35 seconds down to 8! Switching accounts also is now almost instant, 1-2 seconds as opposed to a grey screen as it transitioned for anywhere from 15-20 seconds previously.Safari is also now zipping along.
I don't know if something else resets or updates when you add RAM, or if all the difference can just be attributed to the additional RAM, but the difference has been HUGE! Much much more than I was expecting. I also don't know how much of my problem was related to migrating my data with all its possible conflicts and left over bits and pieces from 3+ years of use.

I'm using a 2.97GHz i7 with 8GB RAM and the problem still exists. Its a shame really, I've been using windows via bootcamp for months and was just starting to like OSX again....

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macjack, please dont take this personal... who in here is talking about apple losing my business and how that will make a difference to you ? clearly you are not reading properly or you are one of the blind bandwagoner for Apple...
To clarify, i was not talking about losing my business... (which is water under the bridge, cuz i should be crazy to waste my time on finding solutions, while the Apple support does jack... ) I was talking about my experience with apple.. so other folks out there who are thinking about making the jump from windows are better informed...
and yeah, thanks for your useless comment, cuz Lion as you say is worse off than ML... and all you have is, clean install it ? my answer to you: been there done that... no use, whats your point ? and if you think i am one of those noobs, i have used the Lion for a year at office before making this jump... The only good thing that got me in is the portability and display... i did not think ML would consume upto 1 GB of memory... i have also tried repairing my disk and repairing disk permissions... Still slow...
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/

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problems? only with the iMac.
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tried clean install instead of update.
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