I had no idea that SSDs would be such a big jump. Everybody has been concentrating on processing power when the HD was the biggest bottleneck of all.
I think it's been common knowledge that the HD was a massive bottleneck for some time (witness the popularity of RAID arrays on servers, as well as advent of 7200rpm vs 5400rpm drives, the progression from IDE to SCSI to eIDE to SATA), it's just that SSDs were far too cost-prohibitive to be a viable option. With cheaper tech comes greater adoption.
thats true, I was out of the tech game for a while. When one of my friends told me I should upgrade my 2010 pro to an SSD rather than get a new macbook, I didn't really believe him. I'm running a 250gb Samsung SSD and upgraded my RAM from 4gb to 8gb. Big performance jump and only cost me around $240 all in all to have a pro just as fast or faster than the new ones.
I know this is off-topic again, but I've worked in a computer repair shop in West U area. I've seen people bring in old-ass PCs that needed to have viruses removed and not because they don't work. The problem is they DO work, and we have to work with their slow asses everyday, so I have first hand accounts that old Windows PC do in-fact work as long as any Apple product. I've been on-site with a bank in downtown that actually have old-ass Dells with P4s and running 10-year old accounting software that called us to fix a bad network port on one of their machines. I've also worked at an electronics recycling center that recycles Windows desktops and laptops by the truckload from local business and companies. Most of them are still in working condition with maybe cosmetic damages and the only reason they were given to us was because the upgraded to newer machines. I'm talking about old school Thinkpads, Latitudes, and Elitebooks. Hell, we actually use those machines ourselves for work PCs. So, just because 2-3 of your friends' PCs decided to crap out in a year or two, doesn't mean Macs last longer. I have a first-hand account that that is NOT the case.
Had to buy a macbook pro because I need FCP and don't have any other Mac. It really burns to think of what I could have assembled with the money. This thing cost me more than my machine which sports an i7, 24GB ram, nvidia graphics and two SSD's >> runs Adobe Premiere like a champ.
this is like the league pass broadband thread where everybody complains about league pass or International League Pass
Pft, the Surface Pro 2 can edit 6k raw video data from a Red Dragon... they even did it live at a launch event in real time. Starts at $899. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/H7vypRNKVRQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
