SSD in your mac
So an issue was raised recently about my pending decision to buy a Macbook Pro. I’d like an SSD, less chance of shock damage, super fast write speeds, but then i found out mac doesn’t support TRIM and subsequently performance slows down soon after purchase. Should i save my 400 bucks and do a different upgrade, or is it worth it?
I would save my bucks for anythnig else till apple didn’t implemented trim on SL (it should come with the next generation MBP, I guess)
Hmm. i wouldnt bother with SSD until its much cheaper and higher in capacity.
And to be honest (going off the O.P) when was the last time you had “shock damage” to your HD or was so peed off that your laptop was writing too slow.
I think SSD “will” be the way we all go "eventually’ but right now its too expensive and not worth it.
You can bet that Apple will drop everything for SSD eventually and then it will have to be more financially accessible.
I am currently looking at buying a macbook pro
mmmmm SSD yeah great but as Karlos said not worth the corn in comparison to 7k reg hd
I would rather have a 500 gig 7k/ 10k hd than a 256 gig hd that slows down when you fill it up
MORE IMPORTANTLY do NOT buy a new mac lappy till they throw in I7 chips
thats more of a do not buy yet for me 
Lost two hard drive in '09 on my Dell work laptop. The IT guy was not even phased, his answer when I asked if this was normal “get used to it and backup on the network often”.
But I didn’t go SSD on the MBP, had lots of luck with two other work related Mac laptops. Just too expensive for such little space, and you still need lots of RAM.
Phil.
I went for the cheapest SSD with a three figure capacity that I could find, a Kingston V-Series 128 GB. It has a really bad reputation for being slow, and for an SSD, it is. It’s still faster than any 2,5’’ HDD I owned before, and to be honest, after a few months in my macbook I don’t feel that it has become significantly slower. (Don’t know if it takes longer than a few months for that to happen though).
I also thought SSD would be nonsense, until I had to fill in for a few minutes in a club that had a massive soundsystem with all of it’s subwoofers directly in front of/below the stage. I didn’t have my laptop with me, but even spinning vinyl properly was nearly impossible because the stage and the DJ booth were vibrating so hard that beer bottles fell over. I’m pretty sure that would have killed my HD or at least triggered the sudden motion sensor few times, although that might have been a worst case scenario.
I had two macbooks fail freshman year due to shock from longboarding to class with them in my backpack (Yes powered off), they replaced both for free no questions asked within 2 days which was nice but still lost all my shit
:eek::eek::eek: im a skater but skating with my dj lappy..? Never.
Lesson learned : Always back up your music! haha
Edit: I suppose it should be, don’t skate with your DJ laptop
Seriously though i might grab an i7 macbook
Looks like a Macbook Pro upgrade is very soon to come, and considering I can’t afford one until at least June or July. Hopefully it will come with an i5, 4 or 8gb ram, and of course TRIM support
I read that 3rd party TRIM utilities are available because in 10.6.2 SL doesn’t ‘block’ the command anymore. But I used a runcore 64GB SSD in my HP mini running 10.6.2 before it died (Never buy the 1100 series, worst cooling on earth) and it SCREAMED past my 5400… obviously it was a 5400,but it was awesome! OBVIOUSLY TRIM support will be rad, but it’s not that bad in my experience. HP Logo to login on a single core 1.6Ghz Atom, 13 seconds.
i’m def just holding out for a MBP “refresh”
I’m waiting that to buy my new MBP!
Im probably going to pawn my MBP to pickup a new one, not really for the processor upgrade, but moreso for the possibility of USB 3.0, which I can see being used very soon by big name manufacturers
they were speculating on macbreak weekly that the next macbook pro likely will have a full touch screen interface a-la ipad with ips display.
hence why theyre overdue for the refresh. i had to go ahead and pick one up at the beginning of the semester but i dont regret it even for a second.
hey guys dont really wanna open a new thread so im just gonna ask here since its kinda related
do you guys turn off the SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor) in your Macbook Pro’s? according to the description it is recommended to turn the sudden motion sensor when you operate the macbook in a location with a lot of vibration (eg: THE CLUB…?)
I heard it may accidentally park the hard drive unintentionally if theres a lot of vibration from the speakers
any input on this?
My X25-M (with TRIM-ready firmware) doesn’t have TRIM-support under Lion (GM). But there’s this.
End of discussion. One reboot and that’s all.
SSD is definitely the best upgarde you can get for any computer (either Mac or PC, recent or new one)
Not in term of capacity for sure but, in the perceived speed bump you automatically get when you use your computer.
I would recommend Sandforce based disk. I love the OCZ VERTEX/AGILITY 2 series… for macs upgrades because in France, at least, they are quite cheap and easier to find than the others and they have a good size/performance/price ratio.
I installed 4 of them in different laptops without a glitch : MBP 15’ 2007 (C2D, old case) macbook (C2D, old case), MBP 13 2009 (C2D, unibody) and macpro 2006 (Quad, 3’5 drive)
Not sure what this is reffering to: I7’s in MacBook Pro’s are available now.
Ive got one in the laptop im typing on 
From what i can see the only MBP that doesnt have an I7 is the lower spec 13’'.
Unless ive missed somthing?