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To: Swordmaker

I still see no reason to move to a SSD.

Despite the beauty of the new MacBook, I’m sticking with my heavy 15”.


7 posted on 05/12/2015 12:37:22 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: Loud Mime

I think the best of both worlds is a combo drive with booting from an SSD and data on a good quality, high capacity Hard drive. Makes for a very snappy system.


8 posted on 05/12/2015 12:58:24 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Loud Mime
Despite the beauty of the new MacBook, I’m sticking with my heavy 15”.

Unless you do a lot of traveling. . . I recall lugging my old MacBook Pro around airports in a leather briefcase with all the accessories. . . The computer alone was six and a half pounds. By the time you ran to catch a connecting flight it felt like sixty-five! A two pound MacBook would be delightful.

9 posted on 05/12/2015 1:02:35 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Loud Mime
I still see no reason to move to a SSD.

I just upgraded to SSD on all five of my comps. It's like having five brand new computers. Spend $100 for a 250 gig SSD, load all your programs onto it and boots and program launches happen like lightning. I will never go back to spinning disks.

One of my recently upgraded boxes is my carputer residing in the trunk of my car. I go up to a week at a time without powering it up and that trunk can get very hot during the summer months so this article caught my attention. I do keep everything on it backed up, though.

15 posted on 05/12/2015 3:52:24 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Loud Mime

“I still see no reason to move to a SSD.”

Eleven seconds from power-on to desktop ... and that includes spinning up two HD’s.


27 posted on 05/12/2015 11:12:30 AM PDT by TexasGator
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