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A car which provides more of that is therefore not a waste of money for me. Personally, I'd love a 415 bhp car, because my 300 bhp car feels too slow off the line. We spend money on the things that are personally important and not every purchase needs standardized objective metrics to judge its appropriateness. Naively judging a purchase as "worthy" or "wasteful" by arbitrary standards is ridiculous. Buying a 415 bhp car because the buyer wants it is not a waste of money if the buyer derives pleasure from the purchase. Your post utterly ignores marginal utility and subjective pleasure. Unless your goal is to race people stop light to stop light there's little benefit a 415 hp car gains you over a 300 hp car. If you bought it solely because it has 415 hp and you intend to drive it solely on public roads and within the constraints of the law while on those roads then I think you probably wasted your money. That depends on why you purchased the vehicle. IMO most people will benefit more from higher capacity or a lower price than faster boot / application load times.
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The benefit primarily being faster boot times (and my spinny disk MacBook Pro boots pretty quick as it is) and application launch times (my spinny disk computers launch applications quickly). However I doubt the OP will benefit significantly from one. If you want to buy one knock yourself out. Given their cost / capacity ratio I have a difficult time recommending them for someone unless their use case significantly benefits from one and therefore offsets the drawbacks (higher cost, lower capacity). Aside from faster boot times (Windows PC) and faster application load times (Power Mac) the SSDs haven't noticeably increased the speed of these systems.
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I speak of this as someone who has two systems, a Windows laptop and a Power Mac, which have SSDs installed. It's my opinion, for the work outlined by the OP, the SSD won't appreciably increase the speed at which he gets anything done. The two things you need are sufficient RAM and a SSD. All modern processors are fast enough in normal tasks. Having that happen is a big improvement to my user experience, easily worth the price. I want things to happen when I ask for them. [I don't like waiting, especially since computers don't provide meaningful feedback during most waits.
However you're spending a lot for "feels fast", gaining little in productivity increases, and losing something many people do gain substantial benefit from: capacity. If the SSD didn't have a serious capacity disadvantage then I might be more likely to recommend them. Sure it feels faster but all you've done is spend needless money and you ultimately reach your destination at the same time as the 150 HP car. If it doesn't improve your productivity what does it buy you? "Feels fast"? I liken this to buying a 300 HP car over a 150 HP car because the 300 HP car can accelerator faster from a red light than the 150 HP car. I enjoy my SSD machines just as much when I'm just puttering around with email and office as I do when I'm pushing them. But it will revolutionize the way the machine feels, even for relatively simple use.
Will it actually improve your productivity quantifiably? Perhaps not. Spending so much money on an SSD for the capacity doesn't seem like a wise idea.Ĭan't disagree with this more strongly. Aside from that your work isn't disk intensive. Yes the system will boot a little faster and will launch some applications faster. I'd be surprised if you observed any tangible gains with an SSD. I think there might be something else out there that is reliable and cheaper. The size is fine but a lot of performance would be lost since of my laptop's SATA limitation. I had purchased a 7mm Crucial m4 256GB drive with Newegg, but just cancelled it just to think about it some more. But since it is an Apple laptop, TRIM support won't be enabled by default in Mountain Lion. I think the laptop only supports the 3.0Gb/s SATA standard so a lot of the newer 6.0Gb/s drives would be lost on me.
I want an SSD with 240GB or more of space.
I want a newer laptop, but with email, surfing, and Word pretty much the only thing I use it for, this is doing me fine.
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Long story short is my hard drive has issues and I find this a "perfect excuse" to upgrade to an SSD to keep this machine going for a few years.