Trade offs with HD speed?

[skerfoot]

School-boy question, I know.

Looking at the new MBP, 15inch i7, hi-res matt screen.

Is there a trade off to getting the 7200 RPM HD compared to the 5400 RPM drive? (besides $50). Are there reliability issues? Is the speed increase noticeable? I know that the SSDs are much faster, but I see they aren't very reliable and they're pretty expensive. I'm not paying, but I have to be responsible.

Thanks

 

[techound1]

I've found the 7200 to be more responsive, but then I may just be telling myself that because I sprung for one.

 

[finnschi]

School-boy question, I know.

Looking at the new MBP, 15inch i7, hi-res matt screen.

Is there a trade off to getting the 7200 RPM HD compared to the 5400 RPM drive? (besides $50). Are there reliability issues? Is the speed increase noticeable? I know that the SSDs are much faster, but I see they aren't very reliable and they're pretty expensive. I'm not paying, but I have to be responsible.

Thanks

Its faster, and yes you WILL notice (I did some tests and found my macbook after the HDD upgrade faster...) not benchmarks but Real world test (web browsing, and especially opening documents and browsing files)