Hey all,
So, I've been wanting an Apple Road Warrior for quite a while. Now that my trusty and faithful Acer laptop no longer charges without coaxing (I'll re-solder the connector, but it's an excuse right?), plus it only has about a 10 minute battery life (In Linux, it won't even finish booting vista.) So, I'm gonna go with the White MacBook (gonna wait a little bit, plus I'd like to see what Mr. Cook has to say later this month, maybe a new lineup). Anyway, here is my main question;
I am going to drop in an SSD, and I'm trying to decide on the amount of storage I might need. The 512GB models are awesome but they break the bank, 256GB pushes it, but 128GB feels just right price wise (well, I mean hey, it could be cheaper, but it's doable.) My question is, do you think I'll need more than 128GB? I haven't used a Mac since the PowerPC days (when my 9 gig hard drive felt unlimited), so I'm not sure I'll need more. My current laptop has a 160GB Hard Disk, split 50/50 (80 gigs each) between an Ubuntu Linux partition, and a W-Word V-Word partition. I don't have problems there, I almost always use Linux, but keep windows on there for the odd application or two that I can't get to work under Wine, plus the GPU in this thing isn't supported by AMD in Linux, so any games or whatever have to be on the Windows side (though not many).
So what say you? This isn't going to be a main computer, just my laptop. Office suite, lightroom and photoshop (but it won't store pictures, just pull them off the camera, tweak them and dump them when I get home, or even FTP them back home). Beyond that, I can't imagine needing more than 128GB, but if you folks can give me a good reason to go with the 256 I'll think about it. I just wanna be sure! (Also accepting 512GB 2.5" SSD donations
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Also, I am aware that there are brackets that would allow me to mount another drive in place of the optical drive, but I use the optical drive alot. I will be using an external enclosure for the stock HDD, but USB 2.0 is only so fast, so it's only a viable solution for document storage.
By the way, anyone have experience booting on USB 2.0? I play a little Bad Company 2 (ok, I'm addicted), and it would be the single only use for a Windows Partition for me (everything else could be done via virtualbox and a Windows XP), I wonder if I could still get decent performance with a Windows partition on the stock 250GB HDD, mounted in an enclosure (considering the game runs out of RAM once loaded). Thoughts?
-John
So, I've been wanting an Apple Road Warrior for quite a while. Now that my trusty and faithful Acer laptop no longer charges without coaxing (I'll re-solder the connector, but it's an excuse right?), plus it only has about a 10 minute battery life (In Linux, it won't even finish booting vista.) So, I'm gonna go with the White MacBook (gonna wait a little bit, plus I'd like to see what Mr. Cook has to say later this month, maybe a new lineup). Anyway, here is my main question;
I am going to drop in an SSD, and I'm trying to decide on the amount of storage I might need. The 512GB models are awesome but they break the bank, 256GB pushes it, but 128GB feels just right price wise (well, I mean hey, it could be cheaper, but it's doable.) My question is, do you think I'll need more than 128GB? I haven't used a Mac since the PowerPC days (when my 9 gig hard drive felt unlimited), so I'm not sure I'll need more. My current laptop has a 160GB Hard Disk, split 50/50 (80 gigs each) between an Ubuntu Linux partition, and a W-Word V-Word partition. I don't have problems there, I almost always use Linux, but keep windows on there for the odd application or two that I can't get to work under Wine, plus the GPU in this thing isn't supported by AMD in Linux, so any games or whatever have to be on the Windows side (though not many).
So what say you? This isn't going to be a main computer, just my laptop. Office suite, lightroom and photoshop (but it won't store pictures, just pull them off the camera, tweak them and dump them when I get home, or even FTP them back home). Beyond that, I can't imagine needing more than 128GB, but if you folks can give me a good reason to go with the 256 I'll think about it. I just wanna be sure! (Also accepting 512GB 2.5" SSD donations
)Also, I am aware that there are brackets that would allow me to mount another drive in place of the optical drive, but I use the optical drive alot. I will be using an external enclosure for the stock HDD, but USB 2.0 is only so fast, so it's only a viable solution for document storage.
By the way, anyone have experience booting on USB 2.0? I play a little Bad Company 2 (ok, I'm addicted), and it would be the single only use for a Windows Partition for me (everything else could be done via virtualbox and a Windows XP), I wonder if I could still get decent performance with a Windows partition on the stock 250GB HDD, mounted in an enclosure (considering the game runs out of RAM once loaded). Thoughts?
-John
