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Originally Posted by 604778
hey guys, just got my first macbook. I just got the basic MBP 13in. I'm looking to upgrade to an SSD and also upgrade the ram to 8gb or 16gb. I would like to know which SSD ram is recommended for Mac?
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You can get decent 256GB SSD's for under $200 now. Make sure you check the reviews because the cheaper of the cheap SSDs will have read/write times half or less than half of what a quality SSD model can do which is a big difference in performance.
The bare OS uses under 15GB and if you add a healthy dosage of apps including Office and some Adobe products it'll cost you another 15GB of space. So if having 200GB of space isn't enough you can amp up to get a Crucial M4 512GB for just under $400. Or.......you can get a hybrid SSD drive from Seagate. The 500GB comes with 4GB of dynamic SSD which transparently copies the most used files onto the SSD side for quicker than regular HD performance for $90. Or you can get the 750GB with 8GB of hybrid SSD for $150.
I've installed Hybrid 500GB's my friend's older black plastic 13" Macbook, my sister's aluminum 13" MBP, both using Core2 DUO processors and their boot times hold at just under 20 seconds. Another friend's 13" MBP i5 boots a tad quicker near the 15 second range. I have it on my i7 15" and performance seems to be nice and snappy when it's all booted up. Boot times for for at 10-15 seconds more than the slower 13" counter parts which is strange.