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New MacBook Pros to Carry Larger Trackpads, Dedicated SSD for Mac OS X?
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If this happened, I would assume it would be 16 GB. It would only be for the OS and not for the applications. I say 16GB because they would need room to upgrade to Lion. If they only had to use one of the four little squares on the drive they use in the MBA it would take almost no no extra room on the motherboard. They could keep their OD (which I hope they don't, but I feel they will) and have the "hybrid drive" setup and it wouldn't cost them or us a fortune for the general speed increase.
hopefully the ssd isn't just enough for the OS, would love to have enough dedicated built in flash storage for OSX and pro apps like final cut studio & adobe CS5 along with a storage 2.5" SSD or HDD. I vote for killing off the internal optical drive as well.
I don't have my Mac set up like this.
But it just makes sense that the Migration Assistant places the apps in the Applications folder on the boot drive and the Library files into the corresponding Home folder.
So no update to the Migration Assistant should be necessary.
Ugh. Seriously. I have about 2000 family photo's to scan still and about 100 DVD's. It didn't seem difficult/time consuming ripping all my CD's, but man, even on my 6-Core Mac Pro ripping DVD's are a PITA.
That would be ideal. The average person isn't going to want to deal with seeing two drives on the desktop (or having two drives pop up as possible installation targets whenever they install something). Making it look like a single drive and automatically putting the OS and frequently-accessed stuff on the SSD would be best. Hard links could be used to make it look like all applications are on both drives, so that if things are moved nothing breaks.
I personally don't like hybrid drives - either go all regular or all solid-state.
Plus, Hybrid drives are more expensive - but I guess you're paying more for a Mac anyways...
No, hybrid drives are LESS expensive that the equivalently-sized SSD (assuming an equivalently sized SSD even exists).
An SSD would be nice but I wouldn't trade the WD 750GB Black HDD in my MBP 15 for one. I drag around a lot of big video files and Aperture 3 libraries. SSDs just aren't affordably ready from my prime time yet. I also use my optical drive so I want to keep it.
Yes, and you can find it here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC684ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Nw&mco=MTk0MjUxMTE
Be happy that they still sell it.
I'm pretty sure that those things are going to be pretty rare in about 4 or 5 years.
Yeah, just like MP4's were supposed to wipe out MP3's, right?
I don't understand how people don't use these more often.
I make a lot of copies of CD's for my family (why have my 2 brothers buy an album each when I can and burn 2 copies for them?) and watch a lot of Dvd's on the go.
So from that article it's saying there won't be a drive for Cd's/Dvd's?
(I can't really tell because I'm not great with all the SSD/HDD/etc. lingo)
No, I'm talking about the price of say, a 500 Gig standard hard drive compared to a 500 gig HD/16Gig SD hybrid...
I'm hoping for an anti-glare screen option on 13". It's retarded that only the 15/17" ones get the option.
I am fully in agreement sir.. this is probably what I want to see most out of this upgrade.. in addition to it generally just looking even more awesome.. I'm liking this possibly dark grey/carbon rumour... ooooh
Yeah, just like MP4's were supposed to wipe out MP3's, right?
I don't understand how people don't use these more often.
I make a lot of copies of CD's for my family (why have my 2 brothers buy an album each when I can and burn 2 copies for them?) and watch a lot of Dvd's on the go.
So from that article it's saying there won't be a drive for Cd's/Dvd's?
(I can't really tell because I'm not great with all the SSD/HDD/etc. lingo)
If they're not copy protected, why not just rip the music/DVD's and share them? It's much easier then copying CD's and DVD's, sending em out and throwing them in landfills.
This is a cool idea, but people have been doing this on home built Windows PC's for a few years now.
They get a smaller, fast SSD (used to get 10k RPM drives for this purpose) drives and install Windows and apps on that drive and put all the data on a regular SATA drive.
Boots up quick, loads all OS stuff quickly and shuts down quickly.
I can see Apple making this work well and removing the optical drive.
How big is the default Snow Leopard install?
They get a smaller, fast SSD (used to get 10k RPM drives for this purpose) drives and install Windows and apps on that drive and put all the data on a regular SATA drive.
Boots up quick, loads all OS stuff quickly and shuts down quickly.
I can see Apple making this work well and removing the optical drive.
How big is the default Snow Leopard install?
Ok. But the 500 gig HD/16 gig SD has most of the benefits of a full SSD at pretty much the price of a 500 gig HD. (certainly closer to the price of the HD than the cost of a 500 gig SSD) What's not to like?
Uh, I don't think you understand.
The OS would have it's own dedicated SSD (likely soldered into the logic board like the MBA) just large enough to fit the OS and nothing else. Meanwhile, a second drive in the MBP would hold music, photos, documents, etc... everything other than the OS.
The complete lack of upgradeability to a better drive, if its soldered to the board. What if it goes tits up, your screwed?
theres 2 things for starters
While all signs are pointing to updated MacBook Pros appearing later this week, most likely on Thursday, details on what changes might be included have been rather scant. But a new report from BGR now offers a few claims about what might be included beyond an upgrade to Intel's Sandy Bridge processors.
The first tidbit of information claims that the new MacBook Pros will offer larger trackpads than those found on current models, opening the door for greater flexibility for users and perhaps options for more complex gestures.
The report also claims that the updated machines will offer a dedicated solid-state drive of 8-16 GB to house Mac OS X system files that would allow for fast system boot-up and performance. Additional machine storage would be made available in either traditional hard drives or with solid-state drive upgrades.The idea of separate flash-based storage for system files is not a new one, as reports dating back to early 2006 suggested that Apple might adopt Intel's "Turbo Memory" feature that offered similar functionality. At the time the advantages of using an SSD/Hard Drive hybrid were improved performance and longer battery life:
Finally, the report's source indicates that Apple has shaved approximately half a pound off of the weight of each of the MacBook Pro models.
Article Link: New MacBook Pros to Carry Larger Trackpads, Dedicated SSD for Mac OS X?
I'm skeptical, though when one considers the wide range of possibilities considering Apple's marketing as of late, I suppose anything is possible.
Yeah, just like MP4's were supposed to wipe out MP3's, right?
I don't understand how people don't use these more often.
I make a lot of copies of CD's for my family (why have my 2 brothers buy an album each when I can and burn 2 copies for them?) and watch a lot of Dvd's on the go.
So from that article it's saying there won't be a drive for Cd's/Dvd's?
(I can't really tell because I'm not great with all the SSD/HDD/etc. lingo)
what are you strait out of the 90s?
16GB Actually makes perfect sense. You need about 5GB for the OS, then about another 5GB's for swap as well 4GB's to save RAM when you put the computer to sleep to allow for instant on...
The things that slow my Mac down most of the time are the Page file and Swap, when i've got lots of stuff open. (It will probably do a bit of intelligent caching too for system apps such as mail, safari, ical (maybe itunes too even though it's not really a system app) to makes those apps launch extra quick.
The things that slow my Mac down most of the time are the Page file and Swap, when i've got lots of stuff open. (It will probably do a bit of intelligent caching too for system apps such as mail, safari, ical (maybe itunes too even though it's not really a system app) to makes those apps launch extra quick.