Personal computing discussed
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Corrado wrote:You can enable TRIM in snow leopard too. Google for it, theres a patch. I am running Lion Dev Release 3. I have a late 2010 MBP 15" Core i5. I did exactly what you propose. I put a 128gb Corsair RealSSD C300 in the HD bay and replace the Optical drive with a 500gb Seagate Momentus XT. Really can't complain about the performance at all.
Corrado wrote:Yeah, the adapter bay is plastic, and the HD isn't exactly heavy. That said, the optical drive is incredibly light. I noticed no difference in balance or weight. I also noticed no difference in battery life.
Thresher wrote:I went to see Lion at lunch today. I think I am probably going to give this one a miss, for a while anyway.
I'm usually pretty excited to get the latest OS, but frankly, I don't care for a lot of the new UI "improvements". I think this goes beyond "it's new and different, therefore scary". I think they genuinely may have messed this up.
Corrado wrote:Thresher wrote:I went to see Lion at lunch today. I think I am probably going to give this one a miss, for a while anyway.
I'm usually pretty excited to get the latest OS, but frankly, I don't care for a lot of the new UI "improvements". I think this goes beyond "it's new and different, therefore scary". I think they genuinely may have messed this up.
Most of the 'improvements' don't need to be used if you don't want to. And its $30 for 5 licenses (assuming they're all in your household)... how can you really go wrong?
themattman wrote:In terms of an SSD, I'm thinking of going with the Intel 320 120GB SSD and adding in the opti-bay so I'll have the extra storage. Any reasons why I should switch to a different SSD?
derFunkenstein wrote:Personally I love my 120GB 320 series. The "avoid them like the plague" thing is super-duper overrated. It's not OCZ here. The problem has to do with unexpectedly power cycling them repeatedly.
edit: the only thing that's super important here is to realize that TRIM is only supported on drives with Apple firmware within Lion.