Engadget’s Ryan Block has transplanted a Samsung 64GB solid state drive into his Apple MacBook Pro and finds that a fresh install of Mac OS X Leopard booting with a number of extensions and startup items boots up in about 20 seconds:
This is really how everyone’s laptop experience should be: free from worries about platter scratches or head crashes from bumps or drops; silent, cool drive operation; super fast access to your data. It’s just an early taste of what portable computing will be like in a few years, and it’s amazing.
Blocks times his Samsung 64GB SSD-equipped MacBook Pro with an Apple iPhone:
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIUa0mwUwW8
Full article here.
Block’s review of Samsung’s 64GB SSD for Engadget here.
Me want!
Gimme gimme gimme…
That’s really good.
I’d say that we’ll see Macs with solid state drives before too long.
My God — Apple’s stock got hammered today. What happened?
20 seconds? That’s not good. My Mac already boots up in about 20 seconds.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />
I’ve owned more Samsung 64GB solid state drives in my 50+ years than any of you 12-year-olds ever will.
This looks quite impressive IMO. I think I am going to wait and see what comes out at MacWorld 2008.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />
If this whole ultra-portable macbook is true then I will be first in line to buy one.
That’s awesome. I’ll bet that rumored “thin” MacBook will have solid state storage with no optical drive.
To be fair, he shouldn’t start the stopwatch until the “bong” sound is heard. It’s more like 15 seconds. But still, it’s really not significantly faster than my mac mini (intel core duo) boots Leopard from its regular old stone age spinning magnetic platter hard drive. I’ve got a couple Vista machines, and if you need to boot one of those up, seriously, go get a cup of coffee, check the mail, pet the cat, and when you get back to your desk it *might* be ready for you to log in. Then once you do, go get the laundry out of the dryer and fold your clothes, because after you log in, you’ve got about 5 minutes of hard drive grinding and spinning blue rings to watch before you actually have a usable desktop.
Ha, my Mac has always booted in less than 15 seconds since 6 years ago.
I got a RAID 0 pair of 10,000 Raptors.
1: Use existing boot drive and Carbon Copy Cloner to clone to a Zeroed fresh external drive.
2: Option boot from the clone, repair permissions and install the Raptors making them a RAID 0. Zero the RAID set to elliminate bad sectors (you need speed and acurracy)
3: Clone the external to the new RAID set and reboot.
4: There is no step four. Just ZOOOM!!!
You get way more storage capacity too.
But a solid state drive is ideal. I’ve known people who maxed out the RAM in their MacPro and set up a RAM disk and installed a OS in there for REALLY REALLY fast speeds.
You see Apple doesn’t want us to have all that speed. Or else we won’t upgrade.
I certainly don’t need a new Mac for the next 10-15 years. This thing is awesomly fast and it’s 6 years old!!!
I got a RAID 0 pair of 10,000 Raptors.
Should read “I got a RAID 0 pair of 10,000 RPM Raptors.”
HA! my 2004 PowerBook G4 loads in 23 seconds… with 80GB harddrive… EAT IT SUCKA!!!! EAT IT!!!!
maybe the market got miffed ’bout the new ads or something?
I got a RAID 0 pair of 10,000 Raptors
That’s a lot of screamin’ eagles!
Dame… my bad… i just timed my PowerBook… make that 1.23 🙁
> HA! my 2004 PowerBook G4 loads in 23 seconds… with 80GB harddrive… EAT IT SUCKA!!!! EAT IT!!!!
Try it with Leopard. That’ll slow your G4 down… Hey, my 1987 Mac SE could boot System 6 in less than 20 seconds (from floppy disks). Woo…whooooo!
You apple stock fanboys aren’t chortling so loudly now that the stock is 40 BUCKS! from it’s high, are you? ARE you? I can’t hear you!
heh. I’ma chortle anyways.
There is a GUI, wizard helping free Firewall called WaterRoof that works on the installed terminal accessable firewall in Mac OS X.
It can help you overcome the Mac OS X 512kbit limit for web surfing and set it closer to your actual bandwidth.
Just installed the boot up script and now my web pages load even faster.
You begin to realize certain sites load slower, because it’s not your fault but theirs.
Also there is other things like Safari Speed and Pithhelmet to make sufing faster.
@Laura Goldman
I’ll buy buy more of them now
> You apple stock fanboys aren’t chortling so loudly now that the stock is 40 BUCKS! from it’s high…
It’s still 40 BUCKS ABOVE the price on the “sell” date. Isn’t it???
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />
fast and furious is spam
I want the 128GB for $6,000!!!
everyone selling their applestock is an idiot.. now is the time to BUY BUY BUY!!!!
analysts are fear mongering idiots… everyone is freaking out due to “bad” press from international iphone launches.. mucking forons! there is no “bad news” about their launches.. but writers, editors, and people are STUPID! so up and down the roller coaster goes..
iphone is so revolutionary that i cant even watch the movie in this page…