SSD Upgrade on MBP

[eugegall]

Cant be bothered to look through google so whats the main differences?

Is it worth the money?

 

[jenic]

If you can afford it then yes. Personally I am going to wait for the prices to drop.

 

[Christopher]

Until they start making larger ones more cheaply, I'll be staying HDD.

You could look at a hybrid drive?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Do it. I went SSD on my main drive on my PC and never looked back. I bought a third party SSD for my MBP and it's awesome (dont get Apples shitty expensive one btw!)

 

[UncleGrumpy]

Yes it's worth it for sure. I put one of these

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1

in the laptop laptop and it goes like a b*****d now, it's an i7 so it wasn't exactly slow anyway but the SSD made a massive difference.

Only paupers rotate these days

 

[Mot!]

Only paupers rotate these days

I like that, haha.

The crucial SSDs are pretty good - I had their first SSD, the M225 which has been superseded by the C300 (I think?) It's a sandforce based drive anyway, that's what you want to be looking at, the previous drive was indilix, which is slower and generally a little cheaper.

Currently rolling with a OCZ Vertex 2E and it flies. Happy to take a bootup vid of OSX or XP via bootcamp on my i5 MBP if you'd like to see the speed improvements.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

I have the Vertex 2E too. Rapid!

Start-up time on the HDD was 45-47 seconds. SSD time = 16-17 seconds.

Everything is instant on SSD too, once you get one you could never go back! I keep getting fed up with my work laptops that are normal HDD, keep forgetting they slower

 

[Mr Pants]

@Mot: Get a video up I wanna see!

Would these other SSD's not trouble your AppleCare plan? Or would you just put the HDD back in and play dumb?

 

[Mot!]

I'll get one up in the next hour or so dude.

Nah, Apple are cool with you switching HDDs and RAM

 

[Christopher]

Yep, Apple even tell you how to do it in the MBP's documentation.

 

[Mr Pants]

Sweet. A friend of mine is a massive SSD fanboy so I might have to make that investment at some point when I'm a bit more flush.

 

[Mot!]

Awful vid's but demonstrate some speed..

OS X Boot..



XP Boot via Bootcamp..



Don't think the wireless drivers had loaded when I opened firefox, oops.

As OS X loads, I have adium and mail load too - they're instant.
That's word 2010 I load.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

^ Good old SSDs

And that vid also nicely shows the joys of glossy screens! :rasp:

 

[Mot!]

And that vid also nicely shows the joys of glossy screens! :rasp:

Too right! They're not so bad when you're directly in front of them.

I'd have gone anti-glare if they didn't force you to go high res' too - any higher than what I have now, I can't see.
Blind as a bat haha.

 

[Mr Pants]

Hey man thanks for the vids. I really need to get hold of a copy of XP and whack it on via bootcamp. I'm sat here now with my old laptop next to me cos I need to do some work that requires Windows apps. The thing takes a good 2-3 mins to load up, probably 5 mins before I can get on and browsing the net lol. It's so loud.. and f**k does it sound / look horrendous next to my MBP.