On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:01:40PM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:46 , Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: > > > > As an aside, my son's 2008 Macbook (not pro) was getting very lumpy > > under 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and so we got him a 250 GB Samsung SSD from > > Amazon (?127) and installed it last night. The difference is > > astonishing. It has transformed his Mac and smiles all around. I'm going > > to do same for my 2006 MBP soon. > > My latest laptop (15" Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM) from work came with a > (not-requested by me) 500GB SSD and the speed is phenomenal. > > 500GB is "a little light" for my work, so I have archival stuff on an > external 2TB USB3 drive. I'm considering swapping out the as-yet-unused > optical drive for a bracket that can hold another 2.5" drive in there as well. > > I just read that Seagate is discontinuing production of 2.5" 7200RPM drives. > They see it's all going SSD. If you need high-performance, spinning oxide on > metal ain't going to be what you do. > > My assumption is that they'll keep the slower discs around for a while for > the cheapskates. > > -Charles
I hear you. My wife just decided we needed yet another computer, so we picked up a Dell XPS 13. W7 Pro, twin-core i5 CPU and a 256GB SSD - it's fast! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
