I am in love with SSD

[Jsimon9633]

I had not previously experienced an SSD drive.

I do have a RAID velociraptor 10k rpm set up in my PC but that thing also has Intel 965 Extreme 8 core processor.

I never did get to appreciate what a fast hard drive does to app launch times until now.

I know the RAID raptors are fast but I thought it was the monstrous specs of my pc that made it so.

Now that I have this MBA with modest cpu and 2gb ram but with the SSD. I truly can appreciate it. Every application launches so fast.

And to think this is with an SSD thats fairly low performing.

I have an MBP that I am about to drop a Gskill Falcon 256GB SSD with performance much greater than that of this MBA SSD.

I CANT WAIT!

[Disavowed]

Thought ppl would find this interesting since SSDs have been such a hot topic lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

[mikes70mustang]

ha, thats pretty sweet. The only downside to youtube is watching all the retards argue under the videos.

[pgharavi]

the samsung SSDs in the new airs and MBPs are low performing?

[Scottsdale]

The MBA wouldn't be half the Mac, in my opinion, without the SSD. I wouldn't own an MBA if it didn't have the SSD. Thankfully SSD makes the ultra portable ultra fast and fun!

[Jsimon9633]

the samsung SSDs in the new airs and MBPs are low performing?

Just compared to other BETTER SSDs.

they are worlds better than most harddrives that arent SSD :)

Trust me, you have to play with one for yourself.

[Scepticalscribe]

You have made me both curious and envious. The SSD sounds wonderful and I look forward to the day when I have a SSD equipped MBA to supplement my trusty MBP.

Cheers and good luck

[darrellishere]

I don't have an ssd in my air revision b, although I do in my mac mini!
I don't notice any slow down with general use, and because I don't do heavy tasks on the 4,200 drive so I can't yet warrant the upgrade on another air!
At least until a true revision.

The air is designed for light tasks, hens the 2GB Ram.
I only ever switch between, safari, mail, ical, itunes, and keep it on sleep now instead of shutting down, which dose take ages on a hdd!
I do edit my RAW images in my aperture library, however their all stored on my mini's ssd, so I edit over wifi, cool ;)

[Mactagonist]

the samsung SSDs in the new airs and MBPs are low performing?

They are. I got spoiled when I had my 1.8/128 SSD Air so I got the Intel SSD for my MBP. It manages to be even faster then the Air's Samsung drive.

[Mactagonist]

I don't have an ssd in my air revision b, although I do in my mac mini!
I don't notice any slow down with general use, and because I don't do heavy tasks on the 4,200 drive so I can't yet warrant the upgrade on another air!
At least until a true revision.

The air is designed for light tasks, hens the 2GB Ram.
I only ever switch between, safari, mail, ical, itunes, and keep it on sleep now instead of shutting down, which dose take ages on a hdd!
I do edit my RAW images in my aperture library, however their all stored on my mini's ssd, so I edit over wifi, cool ;)

That strikes me as a little bit of an odd setup. You are negating the SSD's best qualities (access time, and fast random access) by accesing it by wifi.

[darrellishere]

I like your logic!

I think the point I as trying to make is that the air is great even without the ssd!

[macjonny1]

For me I can't justify the SSDs as their storage capacity is so low for the money. Also, the speed doesn't really seem to be a big factor compared to the 7200rpm drives