I wouldn't purchase on that came stock with a SSD. Retail packaged SSD's are much less expensive now as an after purchase add on VS. stock equipped. Plus, you get to choose the drive as opposed to whatever the OEM got a great deal on.Originally Posted by LittleLebowski
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I'm not worried about obsessing over transfer rates on hard drives but I do like saving money.
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I've got a 6YO laptop with a SATA2 controller, so reliability > price > xfer rate for me as well. In my experience, SSD's with the SandForce controllers are very firmware dependent and other than the new Intel branded SSD's with Intel's own firmware validation, just aren't reliable enough for my work machines. Intel's older drives with their own controllers were very reliable, but slow and expensive, Crucial's Marvell controller based drives have been reliable and affordable, and the Samsung drives with their recent price drops are reliable, competitively priced, and fast.
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The Vizios, like many of the Ultrabooks on the market now, use mSATA drives because there's just plain no room for a traditional 2.5" HDD. They're using Toshiba drives -- as does Apple and a number of other manufacturers -- which aren't the fastest thing in the world, but they're reliable and get the job done.
Crucial just released mSATA versions of their M4 line a few weeks ago, so upgrading is still an option for those that are worried about it. Honestly, just about any SSD is good enough for the work I want to do on an ultra portable notebook.
Last edited by jslaker; 09-18-2012 at 06:42 PM.
Same here. I'm not a gamer though I do appreciate the speed of an SSD. Have no intentions of tuning with hdparm and sdparm again.
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Been using the iMac and MacBook Air since Monday, everything seems to be fairly intuitive.
There are a few things that will take me some time to get straight but nothing major.
The menu bar at the top of the screen instead of at the top of the window is taking me a bit to get used to.
Remembering that the red X just closes the window instead of quitting the app is still messing with me.
And no highlight, right click menu cut/paste is annoying.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
Under System Preferences, there's an option to enable two finger tap for right click.
You can also do Control and click for "right click."
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I have right click enabled.
Theres just no right click menu option for cut/paste.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
What am I missing?
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