Anyone using SSD's yet?
 

Thinking about spending my christmas bonus on a 256gb one for the macbook pro and using my 250gb/5400rpm one as an external backup.

Any thoughts?

Haven't used one of Apple's, but I've been using them for years. Unless your laptop lives in a very unfriendly environment, or you have massively critical data that can't fail, it's kind of a waste of money. A conventional drive with a routine daily backup will provide what amounts to the same data protection for a fraction of the cost.

No yet. But did you you see Crazy123's post from yesterday about the monster machine he built using 4 in a RAID 0 config? His system boots - in full - in 7 seconds.

WOW!

I want one because the battery life on my T61p with the 1920X1200 screen, 4G of RAM is teh suck.

SSD uses way less juice, and maybe I can finally get three hours out of the regular 6 cell battery, instead of the barely 2 hours.

From what I've read, the HDD's are about 75-85% as efficiant as SSD's so I wouldnt expect that much of a jump.


I have read multiple reports that the new intel X-25 drives are increasing speeds and giving as much performance gains as upping the ram....

not yet, im waiting for laptop to crap out, then i'll be getting one of those notebook with an ssd. I just use it to type notes, and browse the internet when im away from desktop.

just picked up something for exactly this use.

dell inspiron mini 9 rolling with ubuntu. so far, am not regretting the choice
**coming from a macbook

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Laptop / Netbook

I am waiting until prices drop a little more but on my next MBP I think I will go for it.