The best decision I ever made with my MBP was to put in a solid state drive. I had no idea what a bottle neck the read/write was on traditional hard drives. I fill like I just upgraded to a V12 engine where I had a V6 before. I snagged a SSD amazon....the OCZ 256 GB. I restored from a back up and WOW!!!! I highly recommend it to all those still holding out.
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