Solid state drives

[Rich Kid]

Just bought one for my PC...

Fack!

This is an investment that everyone needs. Windows boots up within 10 seconds, Photoshop and Premiere within 3 seconds. This is the best kind of upgrade you can get for your PC/notebook no doubt.

Just cop a small capacity one 64GB or so and use it for apps and your OS then use a second normal drive for storage.

[Kurtis]

theyre pretty cool

[Mr. Martinez]

yup

no point in getting the ram and the processor if you don't have the SSD to truly make use of it

[Mr. Martinez]

You must be the only hypebeast with a pc though

surely?

[Rich Kid]

Oh don't worry, the Macbook Pro's about too. f*ck gaming on that though.

[The Somalian]

Had mine a little while booting up time>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1ILqM9upc&sns=em

[dub]

lol @ investing in a Macbook Pro and not gaming on it, surely you're just wasting all of those top notch components?

but yeah, c/s the SSD, got the new MBP and sh*t boots quicker than my old laptop used to resume from standby

[Creed Diskenth]

Mine boots in about 7-9 seconds

[Kurtis]

my MBP is f*ckin slow to boot

core i7 2011 model

f*ckin slow overall

annoying

[Mr. Martinez]

why slow?

did you replace the optical drive with an ssd?

i got that, 8gb ram, and it's pretty sick tbh

bout to do a lion install as well, sh*t's about to get slicker i hope

[Kurtis]

nah i didnt, just a stock MBP

4GB ram

virtualisation is a myth, takes about 10 years to load windows 7 with the win95 lookin ass UI in VMware

[dub]

why slow?

did you replace the optical drive with an ssd?

i got that, 8gb ram, and it's pretty sick tbh

bout to do a lion install as well, sh*t's about to get slicker i hope

a word of warning, most places on the net are saying if you go to Mountain Lion your battery life gets worse - though I think with Lion its supposed to get better

[Mr. Martinez]

My battery life is basically non existant anyway

I have over 1000 cycles on it

Dave, if you're doing that why don't you just run one of them minimalistic XP releases

[Swiftie]

Would recommend the Samsung 830's for anyone who ain't got or thinking of getting one.

[djbmc]

i could do with one of these, i can imagine the benefits for audio production.... how easy is it to stick one in a mac?

[Kurtis]

My battery life is basically non existant anyway

I have over 1000 cycles on it

Dave, if you're doing that why don't you just run one of them minimalistic XP releases

i should be able to run a normal OS though, i used to do it on my 2009 core2duo PC and it was running smooth with 2GB ram

[Rich Kid]

Would recommend the Samsung 830's for anyone who ain't got or thinking of getting one.

This is the one I copped, they're doing 20-50 quid cashback on certain models.

[MARVELL]

what is it... those external usb drives that clone your disk?

[Mr. Martinez]

They're basically faster hard drives. Should become standard for all new computers by next year.

BTW If you're upgrading your mac to have one of these, defo get the one I posted above.

Crucial M4.

Theee ting.

[Kurtis]

a flash based hard drive that doesnt have spinning parts inside or whatever

[MARVELL]

oh oh, i see.. yeah i know them. i wanna get one of those back up ones, that do instant backup/cloning. i thought that was ssd too

[Mr. Martinez]

i recommend clonezilla

[MARVELL]

safe.

still want a hard drive tho, i saw one on QVC the other day but was half asleep

[dub]

Acronis have good backup/sync software.

OSX comes with its own if you're on a Mac.