Seagate Momentus XT: Apple Support Communities. So the bottom line here seem to be that more people had problems than success with this. I would avoid this drive, even though generally I have had good experiences with Seagate. It seems to have issues with vibration which isn’t helpful since it is supposed to be a laptop drive.
Ask Ars: Do solid-state drives cause problems with sleep mode?. The answer is yes. It is unfortunate that the best performing drives seem to have this issue. You can learn all the details at the link before.
Yes this is contrary to most of the results written at other blogs, but instead of considering the artificial benchmarks that are usually used, do real world testing. In these tests, the SSD was slower than the stock drive. You can read more at this article MacBook Air SSD upgrade provides big storage, mixed speed results.
If you like portability and have the money you might love this drive. It has mixed performance but probably adequate for most people. Nice that it has a built-in RAID.
Like most things in life you get what you pay for. Still I have wondered if getting a cheap SSD would be a worthwhile replacement if my HD ever fails. I hope they have some with adapters for an older ATA MacBook.
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OCZ Vertex 3 Review 240GB StorageReview.com – StumbleUpon. This is 69% faster than other available SSD’s. This is a great resource to find the best hard drive.
For those who don’t mind a little work, installing your own RAM or Hard Drive on a Mac is a pretty easy way to improve performance. This gentleman shares with you something that you might benefit from as well.
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How the Luxury Industry is Using the iPad – Luxury Society – Blog. It is things like this that give Apples its deserved luxury status. I think a little of it is also wanting to seem “modern and creative” that using Apple implies. For some companies like Google using Apple is a security consideration. I expect that more companies will make this choice as well. The first powerbook the G3 250 was $7000 when it first came out in 1997. Two years later it was $3000. I wonder if the iPad will follow the same trajectory?