jeff `greene <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd always go for an SSD drive, they make an amazing difference.
Indeed they do, and the prices are improving. My Macbook Pro isn't much faster in terms of clock speed than my old laptop. (Granted, the CPU is 6 years newer or thereabouts, so it's definitely faster.) However, I would attribute most of the performance difference between the two machines to the SSD, which is extraordinarily fast on the recent MacBook Pro models. The older laptop is running Linux, so the operating systems are at least somewhat similar, but it's the hard drive that really slows down this machine (I'm using it to write this message). Buy an SSD if you can. If you can't afford one, or if you need more storage, there are hybrid drives that contain a small SSD for fast storage and a slow, conventional hard disk that provides storage of much higher capacity. The drive automatically moves frequently accessed data to the flash storage for rapid access. It isn't as good as an SSD, but it's still better than a traditional hard drive. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
