Hi Chris, Hi Ronni, Hehe, the SSDs certainly induce technolust here¹s another link from OWC who are a big USA Mac-focussed supplier of (among other things) drives & memory:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandfor ce> They have a ³side-by-side shootout between an SSD and HDD in a MacBook Pro loading Adobe's Creative Suite on startup² here: <http://eshop.macsales.com/Video/SSD/Performance_Test> Given the move away from optical drives in laptops (eg Macbook air) you can even have both options SSD for speed and HD for capacity/redundancy/whatever using something like this: <http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other+World+Computing/DDAMBS0GB/> I must admit, with online downloads/upgrades, the only time I use the optical drive nowadays is to rip CDs to iTunes and I generally use the desktop for that. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 7/1/11 6:28 PM, Ronda Brown at [email protected] wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I inadvertently didn't see your email re the above, sorry for not replying > sooner. > I've also changed the Subject to fit your query. > > Your 'Local Bloke' is correct! The SSD's are super fast with no moving parts > (so they last a lot longer), they are completely silent, they run cooler, and > they are expensive! > > When I purchased my i7 MacBook Pro 17" I did a 'BTO' upgrade to a Serial ATA > Drive 7200rpm 500GB Drive. > I would have loved to go to the SSD, but the price put me over budget one > day though ;-) > More chats with Daniel (Kerr) required. > > My MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM + 7200rpm 500GB Drive is very fast. I'm completely > happy with it. > They are a beautiful, sleek, fast machine. > > I haven't had any experience using a computer with a SSD drive installed, > someone on list might be able to give you a personal experience report (& we > will all be envious). > > The below link shows benchmark from BareFeats. They basically say Apple's SSDs > are faster than any HDD, but third parties offer even faster SSDs. > <http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp19.html> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > On 07/01/2011, at 9:08 AM, Chris Burton wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> >> Thankyou very much for the very useful reminder on doing updates. I think I >> need to print and pin up your list in my office!! >> >> I see you have an i7 MacBook Pro 17". >> Im thinking of upgrading my machine and had a look on the Apple website at >> the 15" models. As part of their options they have an i7 2.8ghz addition, >> extra 4gb ram (which seems expensive) as well as the SSD (solid state drives) >> up to 500gb. >> Do you or any other muggers have experience with using these SS drives in >> terms of speed, reliability and long term use? I spoke to a local bloke down >> here who says they are just amazing, albeit very expensive. He mentioned they >> are quieter, faster and produce less heat. I would hope they would also be >> safer in the long term for data integrity? >> >> Thanks for any advice and best regards to all >> >> Chris >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
