Anyone put an SSD in the new 13"?

[antster94]

Hey guys,

Considering buying the new 2.7Ghz i7 13 and putting an SSD in it. Anyone tried it? And if so, how is the performance?

Anthony

 

[pogoyoyo]

Don't know about the recent macbook pro's but i have the last gen 2.66ghz i7 and i had a 500gb 5400rpm hdd and it REALLY slowed down recently, were talking 4 minute boot times. So i bought myself an OCZ 240gb agility 2 SSD and lemme tell you, EPIC difference. Full bootup with everything loaded takes about 25 seconds... safari opens in half a second, same with itunes, everything is amazing, huge difference! However, i thought that if i removed the spinning hard drive that my battery life would increase quite a bit, well it didn't really, tad bit better, was at about 5 hours now i'm getting almost 6.5.

 

[solyd]

Hey guys,

Considering buying the new 2.7Ghz i7 13 and putting an SSD in it. Anyone tried it? And if so, how is the performance?

Anthony

I ordered those specs from Apple, so we shall see how it performs.

Don't know about the recent macbook pro's but i have the last gen 2.66ghz i7 and i had a 500gb 5400rpm hdd and it REALLY slowed down recently, were talking 4 minute boot times. So i bought myself an OCZ 240gb agility 2 SSD and lemme tell you, EPIC difference. Full bootup with everything loaded takes about 25 seconds... safari opens in half a second, same with itunes, everything is amazing, huge difference! However, i thought that if i removed the spinning hard drive that my battery life would increase quite a bit, well it didn't really, tad bit better, was at about 5 hours now i'm getting almost 6.5.

That's a 30% increase, keep in mind that there are plenty of other power-hungry components in there: cpu, gpu & display, wifi, etc..