im looking at spendin between 150-400 dollars, i plan to buy my first mac this thursday with the macbook pro refresh and what to start out with a SSD. What brands does everyone use for macs, is there any upcomming teck to wait for?
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I have that drive in my MacBook Pro and it's great. I don't know if it's the fastest drive on the planet right now, but it's way up there among the fastest drives you can buy.
not in the macbook pro because its a sata III drive. you won't get maximum speeds from the c300 in a mbp
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Seems pretty reasonable... Apple had to make tweaks in order to use the faulty Intel chipsets, so they're forced to use Sata III...
Seems pretty reasonable... Apple had to make tweaks in order to use the faulty Intel chipsets, so they're forced to use Sata III...
So can you break this down into something I would understand?
If we get a new one on Thursday with these faulty chips will they still work? aka not mess up 2 years down the road...
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Yep. Only laptops which use the SATA II ports are affected. Apple can fix that by using SATA III ports, which in my opinion is a good thing...
Basically you won't be affected...
Yep. Only laptops which use the SATA II ports are affected. Apple can fix that by using SATA III ports, which in my opinion is a good thing...
Basically you won't be affected...
Well if you can wait a little for it, the newest sandforce controllers are due to show up in drives end of march/april. And they literally blow all current drives away.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd
RAM modules and hard drives have always been considered "user serviceable" so upgrading them yourself with proper aftermarket parts is perfectly acceptable to everyone, including Apple.
Generally, the advantages to doing these upgrades yourself are that you will save money, have more options, and can wait for a while if you want.
The advantages to buying the upgrades from Apple are the convenience of not having to deal with these things, your MBP arrives how you want it, and those parts will be covered under Apple's standard 1-year warranty and/or Applecare.
There is some research that suggests that the solid state drives that Apple offers are not the best, but those tests generally use highly bizarre random data writing that is far from anything normal use should generate.
Yeah I'm just using it for surfing the web, music, schoolwork/word/excel, editing small clips from my HD camera and burning some Dvds...nothing too crazy. Would I be fine with everything that comes stock?
The stock set-up is designed for you -- no doubt.
And you can always add more RAM or upgrade your HD to a faster-spinning one or a solid state one later. You'll get a little of that "new car smell" back!
The stock set-up is designed for you -- no doubt.
And you can always add more RAM or upgrade your HD to a faster-spinning one or a solid state one later. You'll get a little of that "new car smell" back!
Haha awesome.
Aren't the rumors for the SSD only listed up to 16 GB's...that seems pretty low.
Will that affect performance in my case or is the SSD only for start up applications?
This drive has gotten great reviews and there are many members at overclock.net who are quite happy with them.
The rumor was for an 8-16 GB SSD for the OS. I didn't see that it would be available for applications, but OSX has a much smaller footprint than 16 GB (I think it's less than 6 GB, and smaller with Monolingual or XSlimmer) so it would make sense to have that space available. Either way, it will no doubt improve start-up and other system performance metrics.
The SSD I mentioned was replacing your regular 2.5" spinning drive with an SSD later.