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need advice,thinking about a macbook
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1248759"><p>Well, a drive spinning at around 50% faster speeds is naturally going to generate more heat (physics, you know) and thus require a *bit* more cooling than a 5400 rpm drive, but I'm not sure why you'd find that surprising.</p><p></p><p>As for overall speed, again I'm not sure what you mean by that. It *does* improve the speed of operations that require a lot of disk usage, but (of course) does nothing to improve operations that don't require disk usage. So the answer depends a lot on the apps you use and how disk-dependent they are.</p><p></p><p>As for my machine's RAM, it's maxed out at 3GB. (well 4GB actually but only 3GB "seen")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1248759"] Well, a drive spinning at around 50% faster speeds is naturally going to generate more heat (physics, you know) and thus require a *bit* more cooling than a 5400 rpm drive, but I'm not sure why you'd find that surprising. As for overall speed, again I'm not sure what you mean by that. It *does* improve the speed of operations that require a lot of disk usage, but (of course) does nothing to improve operations that don't require disk usage. So the answer depends a lot on the apps you use and how disk-dependent they are. As for my machine's RAM, it's maxed out at 3GB. (well 4GB actually but only 3GB "seen") [/QUOTE]
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