On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:46 , Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > As an aside, my son's 2008 Macbook (not pro) was getting very lumpy > under 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and so we got him a 250 GB Samsung SSD from > Amazon (£127) and installed it last night. The difference is > astonishing. It has transformed his Mac and smiles all around. I'm going > to do same for my 2006 MBP soon.
My latest laptop (15" Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM) from work came with a (not-requested by me) 500GB SSD and the speed is phenomenal. 500GB is "a little light" for my work, so I have archival stuff on an external 2TB USB3 drive. I'm considering swapping out the as-yet-unused optical drive for a bracket that can hold another 2.5" drive in there as well. I just read that Seagate is discontinuing production of 2.5" 7200RPM drives. They see it's all going SSD. If you need high-performance, spinning oxide on metal ain't going to be what you do. My assumption is that they'll keep the slower discs around for a while for the cheapskates. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
