OK, so I've been holding off ordering my new 15" MBP until I had a better understanding of this SSD issue (as of a week ago I was going with an HDD, but then this SSD option came up which kind of threw me for a bit of a loop). Anyway, after much reading about what the Apple SSD is and comparing it to the Intel 510/Vortex options, I think I've decided to go with the Apple 512GB upgrade option ($990 education upgrade).
I'm an FCP/Photoshop/AE/Motion/ProTools/etc user and basically what I decided was that if it was a slam-dunk decision to get a third party 256'ishGB SSD, I would deal with a smaller sized drive (i've got about 200GB on my main drive now with just apps on their with all media on other internals on my MacPro). Any of the other $1,000+ large GB options are just too expensive. I've never had an SSD before, so any increase in speed over my current HDD setup would be great for me, so even though the Apple SSD offering may not be the fastest, I think the reliability of it being from Apple (under AppleCare, support TRIM under Lion, etc) I believe this makes the $990 upgrade price worth it, for me.
So my question is this: is this sound reasoning? I'm not asking you to tell me what I need per se, but rather is my logic sound in my decision-making process. I just don't want to go with this option and then find out i've missed something obvious.
Many thanks for your thoughts,
cory
I'm an FCP/Photoshop/AE/Motion/ProTools/etc user and basically what I decided was that if it was a slam-dunk decision to get a third party 256'ishGB SSD, I would deal with a smaller sized drive (i've got about 200GB on my main drive now with just apps on their with all media on other internals on my MacPro). Any of the other $1,000+ large GB options are just too expensive. I've never had an SSD before, so any increase in speed over my current HDD setup would be great for me, so even though the Apple SSD offering may not be the fastest, I think the reliability of it being from Apple (under AppleCare, support TRIM under Lion, etc) I believe this makes the $990 upgrade price worth it, for me.
So my question is this: is this sound reasoning? I'm not asking you to tell me what I need per se, but rather is my logic sound in my decision-making process. I just don't want to go with this option and then find out i've missed something obvious.
Many thanks for your thoughts,
cory