laptop - ssd(Solid State Drive) vs high processor?

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2014-07
  • Florescent Ticker

    What is preferable?

    SSD(Solid State Drive) with enough RAM or i7 processor for a new laptop?

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  • user3145373 ツ

    I'd go with the SSD. The biggest bottleneck on most PCs today is the HDD. Remember, when the updated Core 2 Duo MacBook Air came out 1.5 years ago, it was well received, despite having a 4-year old processor.

    Go for the SSD upgrade. The SSD is much faster, and you won't notice the difference between i5 and i7 anyway.

    If you're saying that one comes with an SSD and the other does not, you should absolutely get the version with the SSD. It will be considerably faster in real-world usage.


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  • Darren Newton

    I have a new iMac 27" (iMac11,1) with 1TB SATA drive.

    Is it possible to install a solid-state drive (SSD) into my iMac in addition to the existing SATA drive and use the SSD for startup? I do not want to replace the optical drive.

    Alternatively, are there external SSD drives I could use as a startup drive via FireWire 800? Would there be any performance hit for this?


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  • sblair

    I believe this iMac has only one SATA port (plus the optical drive port). You could, however, install the SSD internally as the boot drive, and use an external HDD enclosure (ideally with FireWire 800) for the 1TB drive.