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Intel SSD ordered for my Alum MB (updated with first impression)

Your time must be worth way more than mine that 10-15 seconds faster boot time (which people probably rarely do too often) and perhaps 5-10 second faster launch time of apps is worth that kind of money. Once you've launched an app once (coincides with infrequent boots), esp since I have 4GB RAM, Leopard caches aggressively and future launches are instant.

Don't get me wrong, I want to go SSD but definitely not enough to pay that high $ per GB. 250GB SSD for $100. Count me in then.

I think right now they're overrated.
 
mobilehavoc said:
I think right now they're overrated.
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Overrated by whom? No one is on the forum yelling, "SSDs cured my cancer!"

Yes, they are more expensive than HDDs per GB, but your value proposition is not the same as mine. Perhaps I have more money than Bill Gates (untrue); or I use my machine in an environment with constant motion rendering HDDs unreliable and poor performers (also untrue); or I'm a researcher in the data storage field and it is a work expense (true).
 
mobilehavoc said:
Don't get me wrong, I want to go SSD but definitely not enough to pay that high $ per GB. 250GB SSD for $100. Count me in then.
I think right now they're overrated.
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If I am reading the entire post correctly, I take it meant 'overpriced', instead of overrated. Agreed. Mine is funded by work expense too. I wouldn't buy it out of my own money. Having said that, I'm so glad I have it.

In terms of performance gain, however, I disagree that 'a few seconds here and there' is not significant. To me, that (a few seconds faster here and there) is a huge gain a speed, like going up a whole generation. For example, think about how much faster going from G4 -> G5 -> Core dual -> C2D ...
 
foodle said:
Overrated by whom? No one is on the forum yelling, "SSDs cured my cancer!"

Yes, they are more expensive than HDDs per GB, but your value proposition is not the same as mine. Perhaps I have more money than Bill Gates (untrue); or I use my machine in an environment with constant motion rendering HDDs unreliable and poor performers (also untrue); or I'm a researcher in the data storage field and it is a work expense (true).
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silverblack said:
If I am reading the entire post correctly, I take it meant 'overpriced', instead of overrated. Agreed. Mine is funded by work expense too. I wouldn't buy it out of my own money. Having said that, I'm so glad I have it.

In terms of performance gain, however, I disagree that 'a few seconds here and there' is not significant. To me, that (a few seconds faster here and there) is a huge gain a speed, like going up a whole generation. For example, think about how much faster going from G4 -> G5 -> Core dual -> C2D ...
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So you both had the expenses covered by work. Hell if I could get work to pay for stuff, I'd get it too.

The value proposition for people shelling out their OWN money right now is just not there. That's just my opinion of course.

My point about a few seconds is that for most people who don't do data intensive work and have plenty of RAM - 2GB to 4GB (esp 4GB) the gains are minimal. Unless you reboot every hour and relaunch all apps for the first time every hour, I don't see the benefit.

Like I said, one you've launched an app in Leopard (or Vista even) the OS keeps the RAM the app used reserved even after you quit the app in case you relaunch it. In my REAL WORLD use, I would gain an increase in performance when booting (haven't done that in 2 weeks) and when launching apps for the first time (again 2 weeks).

You can't compare to CPU updates or even RAM because those are performance improvements that will be there every time no matter what. There are definitely valid reasons for getting SSDs,etc. but I don't believe it's a real benefit at the current cost for AVERAGE users.
 
mac jones said:
I made a mistake and wasn't paying attention to this. I was measuring from the Apple logo not from the on-switch so It caused some confusion.

Sorry :eek:
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In my case, it still takes ~15 seconds from the Apple logo to the desktop (not instant in my definition). Mac jones, not to beat a dead horse. But I would like to know if yours is really faster. If so, how did you do it, sincerely.
 
silverblack said:
Thank you. This boot time (of 26 ss from pwr button, or 16s from Apple logo) is also Paul Stamatiou reported in his blog - on the 2.53GHz MBP with 4 GB RAM. (Mine is the 2.0GHz MB with the stock 2 GB RAM)
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Yeah, it sounds about right.
 
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