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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1108632" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>a) Hard to say how mature something has to be until it is "mature enough". SSDs are basically just really fat flash drives. Yes, they are fairly mature. Are they still evolving by leaps and bounds on an annual basis? Yes. The controllers (the biggest thing impacting performance) are getting better constantly - and with each new chipset, drives are leapfrogging one another.</p><p></p><p>b) I believe 10.6 without the iLife suite, bog standard, uses about 12GB. I may be wrong on that. Keep in mind, you will not derive as much benefit in having just the OS installed on the SSD. It's applications that are installed there that will make the performance really shine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1108632, member: 24098"] a) Hard to say how mature something has to be until it is "mature enough". SSDs are basically just really fat flash drives. Yes, they are fairly mature. Are they still evolving by leaps and bounds on an annual basis? Yes. The controllers (the biggest thing impacting performance) are getting better constantly - and with each new chipset, drives are leapfrogging one another. b) I believe 10.6 without the iLife suite, bog standard, uses about 12GB. I may be wrong on that. Keep in mind, you will not derive as much benefit in having just the OS installed on the SSD. It's applications that are installed there that will make the performance really shine. [/QUOTE]
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