Originally Posted by
brendog
Even with the biggest SSD available, I wouldn't even be 1/3 of the way to the cost of a new MBP.
I realize you mean "the largest SSD that will actually work in a MBP" but the biggest SSD that would physically fit in one that I know of costs more some configurations of the MBP:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/San...2/3302909.aspx
(They've announced a 4TB model, but I can't find anyone who's got it in stock yet.)
The biggest and most expensive SSD I know of costs more than houses in some parts of the country:
http://www.solidstateworks.com/ioDri...s0oaAvv58P8HAQ
In the bad old days when I worked for a company that still used PCs, I went through a Dell Inspiron every 18 months or so. They started out dog slow and just got worse every day until they eventually just stopped turning on.
Buying a consumer-line machine for work use was their first mistake (although a few of the higher-end models in the Inspiron line haven't been bad, most are execrable; the better consumer machines have been sold as XPS for quite some time), and most companies do an absolutely miserable job producing a good windows image. It goes down hill from there.