IPhoto incredibly slow. . . more ram will help?

I have over 4k photos and iphoto is a pain to use now. Will adding another 512 do the trick. Anyone know of any good deals? thanks

Hi, Dave
a) it seems that you have only 512 Mb Ram. probably, another 512 or 1024 MB would help for everything what you do.
but
b) you say : " over 4k photos ": If each photo is 2.5 MB, you deal with a total of 10 GB. (I suppose for lack of otehr info a 5 Mpxl camera, which gives about that size photos.) Well, I know that the data storage is organized such that not all the file has to be read in order to get one specific part read into memory. I would safe the photos on a cd or dvd (i do that anyhow), then "clean up" (i mean: eliminate that what i don't want to use right now). I have a little less than 2 k photos, and iphoto works just fine and fast for me.
Hope this helps,
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