Poll: Have you upgraded your recent computer purchases?

[OWC Jamie]

My latest Apple laptop only has a 128GB SSD . ALL my data is on SD and USB 3 drives.
What I'd really like in a laptop is a hot swap SSD blade. A little slot in the side that takes TB sized microdrives.

[mrlynn]

billb wrote:
My latest Apple laptop only has a 128GB SSD . ALL my data is on SD and USB 3 drives.
What I'd really like in a laptop is a hot swap SSD blade. A little slot in the side that takes TB sized microdrives.

That's actually a terrific idea! If the Mac guys at Apple had any sense, they'd jump on it: a real innovation.


/Mr Lynn

[Speedy]

mrlynn wrote:
[quote=billb]
My latest Apple laptop only has a 128GB SSD . ALL my data is on SD and USB 3 drives.
What I'd really like in a laptop is a hot swap SSD blade. A little slot in the side that takes TB sized microdrives.

That's actually a terrific idea! If the Mac guys at Apple had any sense, they'd jump on it: a real innovation.


/Mr Lynn
They could put it where the optical drive used to be.

[Robert M]

BillB,

The closest thing to that right now on some machines is the SD card slot. Use a high capacity SD card or MicroSD card in an adapter and you have instant onboard storage. It's not the fastest by any means but it works. I know because that's how I expanded the storage on an '09 Macbook Pro 13", '13 Macbook Pro Retina 15". I could do it on my office's iMac 27" 5K if I wanted some extra onboard storage that takes up no space at all on my desk.

Robert

[Bill in NC]

Picked up a couple of 13" 2012 MacBook Pro refurbs recently.

Replaced the hard drives with older, but cheap (think I paid around $80 each) 480GB SSDs.

Now they run 10.9.5 just fine, even with their original 4GB RAM.

[sekker]

Robert M wrote:
BillB,

The closest thing to that right now on some machines is the SD card slot. Use a high capacity SD card or MicroSD card in an adapter and you have instant onboard storage. It's not the fastest by any means but it works. I know because that's how I expanded the storage on an '09 Macbook Pro 13", '13 Macbook Pro Retina 15". I could do it on my office's iMac 27" 5K if I wanted some extra onboard storage that takes up no space at all on my desk.

Robert

Easy way to add 200GB storage on my MBPR13. Slow, but usable. Store bulk data like iTunes and google drive files.

[mikebw]

Built my Hackintosh with only 8GB of RAM since that was all I wanted to spend at the time. Few years later prices were much lower and I was able to take it up to 16GB.

Also swapped out the old used PATA - SuperDrive that I cannibalized from a G5, for a new SATA - BluRay drive.

Also Added a USB 3 card which is pretty boss.

Also swapped out older (also used from another machine) video card for something newer.

Also upgraded Hard Drives as capacities increased. Next step is SSD.

[Robert M]

Sekker,

Exactly. Slow but definitely usable. Great for off-loading infrequently used items. I use it as throw-away storage. Doesn't matter if the stuff is slow to access or gets deleted or corrupted and such.

Robert