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Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings?

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:56:42 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <jollyroger-630244.07564224082011@news.individual.net>):

> In article 
> <cf7977fc-d9d4-4b1d-9ee4-63c3fc30de95@g9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
>  AD <isquat@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 24, 5:46 am, Tim Lance <n...@nada.com> wrote:
>>> At some point I assume I'll end up with a regular ole hard drive and an SSD
>>> for booting/apps. I can buy the lappie (13" 2.7 i7 MacBook Pro) with the 
>>> SSD
>>> and get a kit for some SATA drive to put into the optical bay. Or I can 
>>> just
>>> buy the MBP and add the SSD kit to the optical bay. So here's my dumb
>>> question: Is booting an SSD from the regular drive bay any different from
>>> using it in a kit in the optical bay?
>>> 
>> 
>> osx is not msdos. You don't need to reboot every 10 minutes
> 
> That's irrelevant. Startup time isn't the only speed gain. I can tell 
> you from experience that having an SSD as the internal drive in a 
> MacBook Pro makes it very noticeably faster after boot as well - so much 
> so that I likely won't ever have one with a traditional hard drive ever 
> again. The thing just plain screams with an SSD in it.
> 
>> why bother with an internal ssd in a device that you can't easily
>> service yourself?
> 
> Oh please. I've taken apart and serviced numerous Mac laptops. It's not 
> hard. And there are step-by-step procedures with pictures and all online 
> for anyone interested in doing it. It's not rocket science.
> 
> 

Much thanks, JR. Yeah, the other reply was essentially useless as it 
disregarded my question..

And upon further research I can choose whether to have the SSD in the regular 
place or the optical so it makes no real difference. And as for the work, 
it's child's play to my daughters 14" G4 iBook - that was a bear I never want 
to cross ever again.

I seldom frequent these parts anymore but did re-up my individualnet account. 
Glad to see you and others still around.

-- 

Tim

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Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-23 21:46 -0500
  Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? AD <isquat@gmail.com> - 2011-08-24 02:15 -0700
    Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-24 07:56 -0500
      Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Tim Lance <nope@nada.com> - 2011-08-24 14:47 -0500
        Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Steve R <steve.r@in.au> - 2011-08-25 07:53 +1000
          Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-25 12:01 +1200
        Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-24 19:00 -0500
      Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) - 2011-08-25 09:52 +1200
        Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-24 18:58 -0500
      Re: Gonna buy new laptop > SSD wonderings? David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2011-08-24 22:11 +0000

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