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<blockquote data-quote="XJ-linux" data-source="post: 1105589" data-attributes="member: 33722"><p>I ran a 128GB SSD on my 15" Late 2008 2.53Ghz MBP and loved it. In fact, I moved it to my 2010 MBP when I sold the 2008. Very fast, applications like iTunes launch with about "1 hop" on the dock. Boot up takes about 15 seconds or so. Handbrake 64-Bit takes half the time it use to when converting video and iMovie is immensely quicker when importing video to projects. The battery life improved by 30% or so. I highly recommend them. Mine will be going on 2 years this coming fall with no issues. I used Super Duper! to move my data which took no time between a 7200rpm, a Firewire 800 port and the SSD. The brand I chose was the Super Talent Ultra Drive GX. Inspecting it in System Profiler revealed it to be a Samsung drive at heart. You can do your own version of TRIM by using the "write zeros to free space" in the Disk Utility. OK, it's not TRIM, but it apparently works according to some articles. Honestly, mine is as fast as it has ever been so I really don't know. There has been one firmware update that I'm aware of for my particular drive. I chose not to apply it as it only had relevance to Windows, so I can't comment on FW updates. If you have the cash, it is the single biggest bump in speed you can do for your system. Going from 4GB to 8GB of RAM was nothing compared to a SSD upgrade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="XJ-linux, post: 1105589, member: 33722"] I ran a 128GB SSD on my 15" Late 2008 2.53Ghz MBP and loved it. In fact, I moved it to my 2010 MBP when I sold the 2008. Very fast, applications like iTunes launch with about "1 hop" on the dock. Boot up takes about 15 seconds or so. Handbrake 64-Bit takes half the time it use to when converting video and iMovie is immensely quicker when importing video to projects. The battery life improved by 30% or so. I highly recommend them. Mine will be going on 2 years this coming fall with no issues. I used Super Duper! to move my data which took no time between a 7200rpm, a Firewire 800 port and the SSD. The brand I chose was the Super Talent Ultra Drive GX. Inspecting it in System Profiler revealed it to be a Samsung drive at heart. You can do your own version of TRIM by using the "write zeros to free space" in the Disk Utility. OK, it's not TRIM, but it apparently works according to some articles. Honestly, mine is as fast as it has ever been so I really don't know. There has been one firmware update that I'm aware of for my particular drive. I chose not to apply it as it only had relevance to Windows, so I can't comment on FW updates. If you have the cash, it is the single biggest bump in speed you can do for your system. Going from 4GB to 8GB of RAM was nothing compared to a SSD upgrade. [/QUOTE]
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