I've considered putting an SSD in my MBP and decided against it - on cost grounds. As far as using SSDs in Apple hardware in general, here's an interesting article from Bit Tech (aka Custom PC magazine in the UK): http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-performance-trim-in-osx/7
Its testing seems to show that trim support isn't really required to get the best out of an SSD in OS X... (probably best to fork at this point if you want to comment!) On Dec 3, 11:09 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 8:17 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wonder if the whole debate isn't pointless, given that Apple and IOS > > does not support TRIM commands but instead has their own custom > > "garbage collection" firmware (like early generation SSD's). > > On the desktop, I think only Windows 7 supports TRIM. Since most > Windows users are probably still on either XP or Vista, an SSD needs > to have garbage collection itself. Here's hoping that Tiger will > support TRIM. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
