Why a macbook is a good investment.

thescouselander

I just can't endorse mechanical drives in laptops even if they're part of a fusion drive. Life is just too short to be waiting for the old mechanical tech.

I've got a 256GB SSD in my laptop and that seems plenty - I'm only using half of it. That said I tend to store large files such as media on my network drive which works well because I can then access them from any device. SSD all the way for me.

As for DVD drives - my laptop never had one so there will be no conversion for me.

kwikbreaks

In the various arguments about Mac upgrades during this thread I'm amazed nobody posted this...

securityguy

thescouselander wrote: »

I've got a 256GB SSD in my laptop and that seems plenty - I'm only using half of it. That said I tend to store large files such as media on my network drive which works well because I can then access them from any device. SSD all the way for me.

Absolutely for laptops: all the laptops we own are SSD-only. But for machines with larger volumes of data, a 1TB SSD is at the outer edges of cost-effectiveness (about £450) given most of the data won't be accessed from one month's end to the next, and a lot of it for home users will be video and music where access times aren't a major issue. Fusion drive is a great solution for desktop machines: you get the capacity (at 6p per gigabyte) with the performance for most purposes of an SSD (which would be around 45p per gigabyte). The improvement of going all-SSD is dubious when the price differential is so large.

Weird_Nev

securityguy wrote: »

Fusion drive...

You mean a hybrid drive.... like you can buy and put into any computer you want?

I'm saving the SSD for a year or so down the line, when the price has come down a bit more. It'll be a nice performance upgrade along with a chunk more RAM (8gb-16Gb).

It's probably a case of you don't miss what you don't have, but I'm fine with a spinny disc for now. My wifes work laptop has an SSD and it's certainly fast, but I rarely find myself waiting for my laptops disc except to load games, which I can live with.

cookie365

Yes, exactly like a hybrid drive, only if you call it a 'Fusion Drive' you can charge people a lot more for it

securityguy

Weird_Nev wrote: »

You mean a hybrid drive.... like you can buy and put into any computer you want?

Typical Hybrid Drive: 8GB of SSD, 1TB of spinning disk.

Fusion Drive (which you can build from bits you get over the counter): 128GB (or, if you're feeling flush, 256GB) of SSD, 1TB of spinning disk.

A hybrid drive, like the Seagate Momentus XT, won't get the whole OS, all your common apps and most of your data that you use on a monthly basis into the SSD component.

If you can find a Hybrid drive with 128GB of SSD, let us know (not the WD Black Extreme 2 thingie: that's a whole other kettle of fish).

WTFH

MacBooks don't run Internet explorer by default. That's one reason why they are so good.