SSD in Macbook Pro

[Marek Szulen]

It's old topic, but I've just joined SSD family.
I've installed Samsung 830 series 64Gb in Macbook Pro mid 2010 (2.4GHz)
What a huge speed up!
OSX Lion starts in 11 seconds :)
And this silence.... (I've removed optical drive and installed it in
external case)

Marek

2011/11/14 Michael Zacherl. <mubar04 at blauwurf.at>

> 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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> Thunderbird/8.0
> >
> > 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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