Are any of you running 17'' MBP with intel X25-M 160GB

[AttilaTheHun]

I couldn't image carrying around a $4500 laptop

If you're going to spend that much money, and not carry it around, why not just buy a power house work station?

If you are going to carry it around, that takes a lot of guts.

I don't tell rich people how to spened there mony, but for me to pay over $1000 for an SSD drive that will cost less than 1/2 in less than a year.
and with it the value of the laptop don't make sence.

 

[xi mezmerize ix]

the SSD's are WAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced...if ur really worried about your data just get an external drive and use time machine...much cheaper

 

[azazazz]

Are there any new SSD from intel later this year?

 

[rotobadger]

Rumors are that Intel will have a new series of SDDs coming out in the fourth quarter.

I installed a 160GB X25-M in my brand new i5 17 inch MBP a few days ago. So far I'm very impressed. Booting to usable desktop from button push takes 19 seconds (I timed it). Applications are nearly instantaneous. iTunes comes up in, literally, about 1.5 seconds for me. On the Windows 7 side (Bootcamp) Photoshop CS3 comes up in about 4 seconds(!) and Word and Excel are nearly instantaneous...maybe 1.5 seconds or so.

So far, the only downside is lack of disk space but I knew that going into it. I was lucky and picked up a boxed second generation 160BG X25-M from a guy on Craigslist for $350.

So far, I'm very happy. Also, I am running a windows laptop concurrently (it's sitting to my left as we speak) and it's agony to open applications on it now that I'm used to the SSD.

 

[azazazz]

Rumors are that Intel will have a new series of SDDs coming out in the fourth quarter.

I installed a 160GB X25-M in my brand new i5 17 inch MBP a few days ago. So far I'm very impressed. Booting to usable desktop from button push takes 19 seconds (I timed it). Applications are nearly instantaneous. iTunes comes up in, literally, about 1.5 seconds for me. On the Windows 7 side (Bootcamp) Photoshop CS3 comes up in about 4 seconds(!) and Word and Excel are nearly instantaneous...maybe 1.5 seconds or so.

So far, the only downside is lack of disk space but I knew that going into it. I was lucky and picked up a boxed second generation 160BG X25-M from a guy on Craigslist for $350.

So far, I'm very happy. Also, I am running a windows laptop concurrently (it's sitting to my left as we speak) and it's agony to open applications on it now
that I'm used to the SSD.

Thanks for your reply, it's useful.

 

[steffi]

Which drive is that? I've got first gen X-25M in my 15" i7 also with 8GB RAM

I'm on a 15" i7 with 512GB SSD and 8GB RAM... Does that count?

 

[azazazz]

anyone else has opinions abt it?