Upgrading to a SSD?

[Firerescuebatt07]

I bought a macbook pro 13in laptop last year with a 256ssd... its so worth it. Literally starts in 7 seconds, shuts down immediately. You will notice the difference on your SSD over your old hard drive for sure. For SSD's I am a huge samsung fan and intel fan... a lot of the other ssd's tend to break a lot. I use intel SSD's on my PC desktop as well. love them, love them

[jsipe007]

Transcend is becoming a fairly reliable brand. Ive had a 128GB Transcend SSD in my computer now for a little over a year. I got it dirt cheap too.

Otherwise, stick to Intel/Samsung. Intel honestly makes the best SSDs and theyre pretty cheap now. Ive seen 160GB SSDs by intel go on sale for 89.99 or 99.99! I definitely should have picked one up at that price!

I would recommend going with a SATA III SSD if you can. Sata III supports the fasted read/write speeds so if you ever get a new computer it will be able to take advantage of the speeds

[Darryl Licht]

So I am considering upgrading one of my laptops to a SSD. I have two questions,

First being that I have a 2008 Macbook my GF gave me It runs great and have no problems other than its a tad slow. It only has 2gb of Ram and a 250gb HDD. I was considering throwing in a Samsung 120gb SDD and 4gbs of ram.

Now the only thing stopping me from doing this is that I read that older laptops SATA ports won't really recognize/ take a advantage of the SSD's speed. Is this true? or is it marginal and the SSD will still speed me up a good bit?

The second laptop is an ASUS with an I5 2410m processor and 8gb of ram, I have a 640gb HDD on this one, but I only use around 80Gb's...

If I can still get good speed out of the SSD in the Mac I will just go with it.

Anyways, what do you guys think, what would be the best route and do you have any insight/ recommendations for SSD's?

Speed is very subjective... when is the macbook slow at boot or when using it? Have you considered maxing the amount of RAM first? RAM is the workspace into which your OS and Apps are loaded while you use them. I'd go that route first.

As for the Asus, I see no reason why you need a SSD when you are only using 80 out of 640 GB. Where is this lappy slow?

Save your $ and put it into a new laptop fund!

[paul0660]

An expensive item guaranteed to fail.

I will take two.