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Re: Instant On Secret

albert — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:13:28 -0000

Agree completely - have not had the "pleasure" of Vista but Mac is even fast when going to sleep.

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qwang — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:54:15 -0000

I find one of the biggest improvements in Vista and OS X 10.5 is the speed of entering and exiting sleep states. Sleep, I believe, is the real kick in the shin for all these instant-on projects. As we move to a world of less installed junk (more activities moving into the browser) we can expect the average consumer PC to be much cleaner, and thus rely only on sleep for weeks without a restart.

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albert — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:18:24 -0000

Definitely find that the SSD has improved my day-to-day work. For instance, I find that I am no longer hesitant to resort my mailbox because it is so fast.

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Juan — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:03:19 -0000

Couldn't agree more.
I normally use my macbook w/o restarting for weeks! It feels a bit wrong coming from the Windows world.
The only real problem I have is Firefox. It crashes every now and then.
Looking forward to having Chrome.

Having said that,

Is the SSD worth the cost right now ? Has it improved your day to day work?

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GrishaRemake — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:16:48 -0000

IMHO Macs are much better than PCs. I get rid of all PCs in my house two years ago.

I will try to hack Education by opening online English Acquisition school with game based curriculum.
My students will create a lot of videos, so I will strongly recommend them to use the best hardware on a market: Mac, iPod Touch and The Flip camcorder.

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albert — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:54:26 -0000

That's what I do. At home I have a ReadyNAS Raid connected to an Airport Extreme. Usually take some subset of music for trips.

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albert — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:54:25 -0000

I had developed whole rituals around this, such as turning my old laptop on in the morning before taking a shower.

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Christopher Burke — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:27:47 -0000

Couldn't agree more. I'm running a 2.8Ghz MacBook Pro with an Intel X-25 80GB SSD. If you don't mind streaming your media (from the Net or an external drive) you won't miss the space you're accustomed to with a normal drive. The speed gains are incredible.

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Guest — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:58:39 -0000

I completely agree. I don't want to think about how many hours/days I would saved by not having to wait for my old PCs to boot/wake (though it usually did give me time to stretch or run to make some food). Macs w/o SSD boot fairly quickly as well.