Richard Frack
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Leaving aside hardware, i have to say that XP is the most stable OS i have ever worked in (although there is tweaking/knowledge involved in getting it there/keeping it healthy.) I didn’t even use a firewall or anything beyond basic antivirus and NEVER had a blue screen in 5+ years of daily use until hardware failure on wireless card.
OS X is nice but i have definitely had problems and some frustrating lack of PC features (like copying the path to a folder from a finder window) – that was disappointing after all the hype. #1 reason i use it is FCP. Also – if you are familiar w/ Adobe shortcuts on PC you will have to start from zero + learn all the Mac ones, which in my experience slows work to a crawl.
Vista – forget about it, total POS. I just don’t understand why anyone would want an OS that does 10% more than XP, sucks up 250% more resources, runs slower and crashes 5x week. I’m sure i could get it into better shape but i only use it on one company-provided laptop and can’t be bothered to put in the effort.
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i ended up getting 4 of them and installing internally, boot drive in external FW enclosure. had a weird problem when created a raid 0 on all 4 – stuff on the drive would sometimes not show up in finder but if you select all + copy they were still there / copied. Since then i reduced to raid 0 on 3 of them and 1 stand alone and everything is working fine. haven’t tried all 4 again – not sure if that was a fluke or what.
happy w/ the purchase overall – tonnes of space and fast RAID.
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7200 most definitely worth it – #1 performance gain after adding adequate ram. I’ve been very happy w/ this one:
HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 HTS722020K9SA00 (0A50940) 200GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145160but be aware that replacing the drive on a MBP is not like popping out the memory. You’ll need a TORX screwdriver to take the whole thing apart and patience (there are a bunch of snaps that are tricky to pull apart.) Google it – there are insitructions w/ photos.