Student Macbook Pro 13" Advice

[michael.lauden]

Hey Michael you upgrading as well soon?

Not for a while. I have other machines to do heavy lifting, at home the 8GB of RAM would be nice. Probably going to drop an SSD in as well - but not planning on getting a new MacBook for at least another year (we'll see what happens in Lion as well).

 

[DeepIn2U]

250$ for 128GB isn't that bad deal. Especially when you consider that it has no issues (unlike SandForce based drives for example) and has active TRIM support. 120/128GB SSDs cost over 200$ anyway, and 240/256GB SSDs are over 400$ so you aren't exactly getting a 256GB for the price of 128GB.

I still think $250US for 128GB is overpriced. I quoted $400 ballpark for 256GB SSD's in $CAN dollars too ... canadacomputers.com has a few in the $400-470 range with good performance. 128GB in my mind is barely enough to do web/store a few albums/cached exchange email/etc I'd go nuts with 128GB storage. To me that is just backwards. But alas.

BTW, regardless of hardware TRIM support - just about all SSD's manufactured in the last 9mths have this - OSX Snow Leopard and others before it do NOT support this. Only Lion will have TRIM support - so it doesn't matter what the hardware does - Apple currently does nothing to really use it/implement it.

 

[Hellhammer]

BTW, regardless of hardware TRIM support - just about all SSD's manufactured in the last 9mths have this - OSX Snow Leopard and others before it do NOT support this. Only Lion will have TRIM support - so it doesn't matter what the hardware does - Apple currently does nothing to really use it/implement it.

2011 MBPs with SSD ship with active TRIM support. Not just hardware level, the OS supports it too (special build of 10.6.6).

 

[Fugue]

Seems like I will be getting the i5 with the 128GB SSD. If I ever need more space I can always remove the optical drive and install another SSD at a later date.

From what I've read and seen, the i7 is simply not worth $300 for the minor performance bump it produces.