MacBook Pro ATA?
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- aliceblue
whats it all mean? :-/
Finally I can do a new PB so...
MacBook Pro
Serial ATA Drive-
120 or 160 or 200 GB
would one need?CS2 Flash
thanks!
- aliceblue0
(burp)
- material-10
are you seriously asking what hard drive to get or what? bigger is better in general.
- rafalski0
serial ata is the type of the connector. 200gb is only 4200 rpm, which would slow machine down. look for 5400 or 7200rpm drives (no 7200 option @apple currently anyway..)
- aliceblue0
just want to be sure - so I am asking the experts :)
MacBook Pro 15"comes with the
120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpmThe options are upgrading to:
160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm [Add $120]
OR
200GB Serial ATA Drive @ 4200 rpm [Add $240]SO I should get the 200GB?
- dehryll0
i'd go for the 200GB. Bigger is better.
- material-10
it seems bigger is slower in this case. go for the 160 gb
- aliceblue0
thanks all
Think as material suggests
the 160 gb is my pickyippeee tomorrow I will order
:P
- smoovebert0
i would also go for the 5400rpm 160GB drive over the larger but slower 200GB drive. Save that money and splurge on RAM instead.
- aliceblue0
smoovebert - yes splurge on ram - good idea -
- mog0
I just wanted to add that i found CHEAP ram that was 1 week old which someone took out of their new Macbook and sold to me for 50USD (1GB) I found it on Craigslist cuz they upgraded from 1GBx1GB to 1GBx2GB-just thought i would pass that along to you so you can save a little money and not fork out too much to Apple
- aliceblue0
mog, if i put in my own ram
will that not negate the warranty?
- ribit0
RAM is 'user replaceable'...no problem re warranty... but they usually ask you to remove third-party RAM before any troubleshooting by Apple support and before returning for repair, to bring it back to a known conbfiguration.
- mog0
plus the ram had been taken out of a macbook so really its not even 3rd party--1st party i guess. the thing is i heard that it is optimized to run best with 1gb x 1gb and not 1gb x 512 but still it is best of course to have the 1GB x 2GB if you can afford it. I was just saying if you get the on with the 1GB single ram chip then try to find another person who has their 'extra' 1GB ram chip left over and but it for cheap
- HelixDnB0
"(no 7200 option @apple currently anyway..)"
That's not true, my MBP 17" has a 7200 rpm 100gb HD?
- rafalski0
you're right helix, but I assumed we weren't talking 17" here..
- aliceblue0
yeah talking about the 15 incher-
(plan to buy a dell monitor with some of the money saved by not going to a 17" )
- jox0
wtf? no more 7200 rpm? That sucks.
In that case, my last gen PB17" with 7200rpm 100 gig is faster than all you suckahs' Macbooks.
- smoovebert0
it's been a pain to get fast SATA drives in large capacities. i've only seen 7200rpm drives in 100GB configs. seems the notebook SATA interface is pretty new or something, but i'd imagine speeds and capacities will catch up soon.
i hope. meh.
- smoovebert0
and jox, your last gen pb17" is probably faster too because you can run CS2 and the like natively instead of through rosetta emulation, which is slow as molasses.
- aliceblue0
smoovebert
but we'll rock when CS3 comes out...
...when it comes out :-/