I bought an HP laptop with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD drive for a colleague to run Win 10 and a fairly simple VFP9 app I wrote and it is blisteringly fast - but it is only running the one app, there is a browser and Office on it so that my VFP app can access a bit of automation but nothing else.
I was so impressed I bought a 512GB SSD for my desktop machine. I partitioned it into a system drive and data drive with the main files I use on it. The data I only used rarely was kept on the 2TB hard drive. I noticed some improvement when I did a timing test but it still seems to take an age to boot but that could be because it inherited all the crap that was already clogging the boot. I really must re-install a clean version of Windows but I'm afraid that I won't be able to find all the install discs for some of the stuff I use occasionally - like VFP :-)
John
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Well, I've been talking about it for a couple years now. I think I'm
going to
buy a laptop this week for some Black Friday deal (hopefully) to get the
best
savings.
I bought a Surface Pro 3 from a friend last year but I'm used to a Dell
Latitude
laptop that fits in my docking stations so I'm not taking to the Surface
Pro 3 I
guess for that reason. Plus I need to wipe his image (it was a buyout
from his
company) and hence "if I have to spend for that, why not just spend a
little
more and get a new Dell Latitude."
My question here: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the SSD drives, but of course the 7200 rpm drives are cheaper. Would YOU spend the extra $$$ for the SSD drive (despite it also being smaller in size than the RPM drive)?