SSD or i7?
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nightfly13
macrumors 6502a
as someone with both..
I admit I haven't read all 3 pages of this thread.
I vote i7 now and add an SSD later. Ordinarily I would downplay a CPU upgrade as that's rarely your bottleneck, but with hyperthreading enabled only in i7 and the considerably faster clock speed, it's really a different machine that'll last longer and have a greater resale value. SSD doesn't actually make your more efficient, it's really a luxury item for snappiness. Don't get me wrong, I love mine and won't go back, but it's something that can be added later, an i7 is not.
I admit I haven't read all 3 pages of this thread.
I vote i7 now and add an SSD later. Ordinarily I would downplay a CPU upgrade as that's rarely your bottleneck, but with hyperthreading enabled only in i7 and the considerably faster clock speed, it's really a different machine that'll last longer and have a greater resale value. SSD doesn't actually make your more efficient, it's really a luxury item for snappiness. Don't get me wrong, I love mine and won't go back, but it's something that can be added later, an i7 is not.
mankymanning
macrumors regular
It's great, had no issues with it, fairly straight forward to upgrade the firmware unlike OCZ units. I don't run it with TRIM and it hasn't slowed down at all.