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by the way. I realize there are a couple of macs $3000 and higher that have more cores. For that I'd just upgrade my board to dual cpu version and the computer would cost me $1200 and still be faster than the fastest mac on the market. In fact I could just hackintosh it and have a mac faster than what apple sells, and some do that. But I prefer windows 7.
Yes, SSD is great. It works even better in high end PC's which are FAR faster than Macbook Pro's. I have one in an i7 based pc at 4ghz on pretty high end motherboard. I can load Photoshop in about 1 to 2 seconds. So I'm not sure why your mac takes 5-9 seconds other than maybe they typically use cheap chips for the bus I/O etc. Macs tend to be slower at drive operations, even when an SSD is in place. I keep hearing about these mac users that would take a minute to boot their machines, and have it cut in 1/2 to 30 secs. What? why? My machine boots in 9 seconds on an SSD, and 17 with a regular HD.
As for "sudden application freezes" on XP. That's not true unless it's true for all people running XP. My systems NEVER freeze on HD, or SSD. But WAIT. I see what you are doing. You run in IN your Apple machine which proves my point that Apple Mac's are cheap hardware, and also the drive is not formatted in regular NTFS which also helps to slow it down. Don't sit there on a slow mac thinking how slow XP is. Get a high end PC for under $1000, and watch it out do your mac. Also notice how mac doesn't support TRIM.
But again. I see one of you Macbook Pro users about every 2 hours. Please don't tell me you bought it because it was faster and better. It's not. Only in terms of the fact that it's so obscure that you are less likely to get malware. But it's not a big enough difference to matter really. Other than this one point, there is NOTHING better about mac. Unless in a stylistic way, you like the shiny colors etc. The OS's are far too similar and both work just fine.
It's a cool drive. But if you were really using one in production etc, it's not like you'd need a Mac! Everyone thinks that every where I go and it's like a disease actually. Macbook is absolutely worthless in terms of raw computing power. You pay double and get a computer 1/2 the speed, but most people think you get a computer double the speed. Simple example: I got an i7 based pc at 4ghz that will out render any typical $1600 imac, or the $2000, or $2500 pro. It cost $730. I also work with video and audio in a studio etc. I think the thing that irks me is every last macbook pro user tends to buy ssd first because they spend tons of cash easily. But then they are always determined to say "I use it on MY Macbook pro". To me this is not a sign of professionalism, but lack of understanding. It's not like most will run final cut pro. But most use adobe software anyway, which runs on windows 7 just fine. And there are other alternatives about as good as fcp for windows 7. Some of which are used to create very pro looking videos that have gotten famous on youtube. Search cows cows cows. There are thousands of others. But every last SSD review has some mac guy explaining how good the ssd works in a mac, lol. But I will agree on part of this. Mac's are typically slower, and their hard drives usually are terrible. So, it makes sense I suppose. And I know there are POS pc's. But with a little shopping around and looking, you can buy stuff better than a mac for 1/2 th ecost.
is this thing on?
This is a VERY unscientific poll. Simply because anyone who knows what one is will click the SSD Poll link to check it out. Most people who have no clue will pass it by. According to this 43% of people are using SSD while 57% are not. In reality, less than 5% of people use SSD. The poll is pointless and doesn't indicate anything.