Most (yeah not all) laptops today usually ship with sufficient RAM. SSD is what I recommend to all my "non-tech" friends who ask me what they should do for an upgrade. I got an SSD for my old white MacBook when it was ready to be sent to recycling... It lasted 2 more years and is still going...
Yep, SSD is the deal breaker no doubt. The IvyBridge CPU's all seem to be doing fine. Been having a look at some YouTube benchmarking and the new CPU's all are comparable or even beat the 2010 MBP.
Unless they are going to to some heavy work or run VM's I would say 4GB is enough. Paging to the SSD is not so bad as paging to a mechanical drive if they would run something that went over the top. Then again, going from 4GB to 8GB is not a huge cost.
Yeah, I couldn't wait. I'm laptop-less at the moment so need one as quick as possible so I went for the 13" Air with the i5, 128GB SSD and 8GB RAM. $100 off the price with my student discount and another $100 gift card in the Mac App store was a pretty good deal :D
Unfortunately, the UX31A is limited to 4GB of RAM if I remember correctly. I would love to be able to run a VM or two and that 8GB in the Air sure looks good from here. Would love the screen on the Asus though... :/
I think they all come with Ethernet adapters ready to plug in so no need to buy extras.
Does anyone know if Anand will do a review or benchmark on the UX32VD with the integrated graphics?
I'm really getting my hopes up for the UX32VD model. Hopefully it can compete with the MBP. In a week or two we'll know! (maybe)
I'm really curious on how well the hybrid drive will work. Been running SSD's for last couple of years on all my system drives and going back to mechanical drives...
This has got me very curious as well. The first round of Zenbooks failed on the keyboard, screen and touchpad as I remember it. But looking at the latest review/preview here at Anandtech on the UX21A which also mentions the UX32VD has got me hoping that there will be a solid alternative to the...
Yeah, I read about people having that issue. I think it is because the kexts-cache needs to be cleared and some other things. Check out the MacRumours link I posted above, it has more information about the terminal commands.
My boot time is good, 10 seconds from beep to login screen.
Not sure, but I think I've read "somewhere" that it had to be 10.6.7. This could be false though, perhaps this thread could help you more:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1125400
Thanks all of you for your replies but I still have one question that I'm curious about and that is if there would be a performance loss when installing from a cloned disk or from a TimeMachine backup instead of installing everything fresh?
Access-times shouldn't be a problem if I've...
Yeah so I erased the free space and I'm getting pretty much the same numbers. Since this is a new drive it really shouldn't do much difference. I do think however that a clean install of the OS would increase performance, anyone have experience with this? Why would it be a clean install would...
Thanks for your input.
I've enabled TRIM with the 10.6.7 hack that is out there and I got the about the same numbers before I installed it. Perhaps it takes some time for the OS to actually trim the drive? Should I "erase free space" to get it trimmed faster?
Anyways, if you think the numbers...
I'd have a look at the C300 or the Intel 320. Whichever you get will be so much faster the a regular drive so I wouldn't be too concerned which performs at the very top in benchmarks. I got an Intel since they feel reliable although C300 does seem to perform better. I'm also stuck with Sata 2...
Hey!
This is my first post here on the forums so I wish to say hello! to everyone.
I've made a similar post to this over at MacRumours but as it hasn't generated any response I'm coming here to the real experts :D
A few days ago I installed my first SSD, an Intel 320 Series 120GB, into...
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