Is it worth the extra money? Wil be using it for CS Suite on the go. What would you go for?
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13" MBP 2.4 vs 2.66
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Spend that money on an SSD. It'll get you more performance than the .26 clock speed bump would ever.
yup... for $300 more you can bump the ram to 8g and get a 60gig SSD.
very very fast and money well spent.
If you can get to a Micro-Center you can save another $200 on the price of the new MacBook Pro 13" and put a much larger SSD in it and be way ahead.
very very fast and money well spent.
If you can get to a Micro-Center you can save another $200 on the price of the new MacBook Pro 13" and put a much larger SSD in it and be way ahead.
think i will do the 2.4 with SSD tbh! not sure if i will completely benefit from the 8gb of ram but we shall see.
Im in the UK so Micro Center is a no go unfortunately, I'll have to settle for education discount.
Which SSD would you recommend? I thought Mac OS doesnt support trim?
OSX 10.6 doesn't support TRIM. Yes, its a little sad. However, even an SSD that has been severely degraded will perform better than a standard hard-drive.
From what I have read, it seems that there are certain drives that suffer less from performance degradation. I believe the Intel x-25m G2 is one of those, although I've also heard good things about this drive: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
I'm no expert, but i hope I helped a bit.
Oh, and I don't see OSX 10.7 Lion not including support for TRIM when it is released this summer. So any performance degradation should be recovered when/if you upgrade to Lion next year.
Thanks to all for advice. For what its worth I ordered a 2.4 13" after reading the comments. Going to search for SSDs now 
Thanks to all for advice. For what its worth I ordered a 2.4 13" after reading the comments. Going to search for SSDs now
Good choice -- same one I ended up making.
As for SSD's, I'm holding out a little while longer. 120's are at the right pricepoint but looking at what I keep on the system (it's my primary personal system), I feel it'd be a little tight space-wise and would prefer to go with a 240GB level... which is a bit more expensive than I want to go for today.
Having come from a Windows laptop, I find the performance of the stock system to be pretty reasonable. I know I'd like an SSD but with 8GB of memory (got in on the $90 J&R deal for Crucial) performance is decent.
My point is consider getting and using the system a bit before committing to SSD. I was all hot to order an SSD right as I got my MBP13, but am glad I've chosen to wait a little bit.
going to put the factory drive in an optibay. not my main pc but 250gb should do for loading stuff onto