SSD in Macbook Pro

[Michael Zacherl.]

Gents et al,
yeah, I'm pretty sure that an SSD would help me speeding up this machine.
Looking at the system monitors I can tell it _does_ do a lot of swapping.
I also got a lot of data causing big index files (Mail alone has an index of more than 200MB).
I'm used to launch applications via Spotlight (I'm typing faster then grabbing and dragging and clicking the mouse),
that got slower and slower over time.
The only question is: my MBP is damaged, the lid (as I said) probably not tight anymore, etc.
That makes me a bit hesitant.
And: what about the prices? Where do they go the next weeks/months?
Thanks,  Michael.

> From: Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>
> Date: 13 November, 2011 4:13:52 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
> Subject: Re: SSD in Macbook Pro
> Reply-To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
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> Op 13-11-2011 14:37, Michael Zacherl. schreef:
>> Hi Joost, thanks for replying!
> 
>> The intel 320 / 160GB is currently listed at about €240 - quite some money, then again I maybe could use it in a potential new machine as well.
>> 
>> Pondering ...
> 
> Just consider: an SSD drive to replace an HD will give you much, much more speed profit then any processor or computer upgrade alone.
> 
> -- 
> Gert


> From: Kim Johnsson <johnssonkim at gmail.com>
> Date: 13 November, 2011 4:21:18 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
> Subject: Re: SSD in Macbook Pro
> Reply-To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
> 
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Just consider: an SSD drive to replace an HD will give you much, much more
>> speed profit then any processor or computer upgrade alone.
> 
> Hear hear. A year ago, in the summer, my PC turned three years old, at
> which time I usually buy a new one. I decided to get a SSD instead. I
> run XP, and the progress indicator, while booting, completed 13 cycles
> on my old HD, and only 2,5 cycles with the SSD. It totally felt like a
> new machine, and it's on its fifth year now :-)
> 
> SSD rules.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kim


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