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Jul 25, 2014 | 9:11 am

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brendog

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Originally Posted by nkedel

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

Yeah, I probably should have been more specific. 1TB would be more than enough, as I haven't even filled half of my 512GB HD as of right now, thanks to network and cloud storage, plus several multi-TB portable drives. I'd mainly want a SSD for the speed and durability.

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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.

Between the crap processor, the lack of RAM, and the fact that the Inspiron weighs roughly 20kg, it was possibly the worst choice they could have made for traveling employees. On the plus side, their on-site service was always very prompt, even at random customer sites and hotels. I was further crippled by having never used any Windows product, save for NT4.0, so XP was a major hurdle for me. I was always a DOS, Unix, MacOS user, previously.

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