I’m a bit of a hardware geek. I tend to keep up on what’s new and neat. I’m a bit conservative when it actually comes to buying the latest and greatest, but that doesn’t stop me from following the trends.
I’ve been eyeing solid state disks for the last year or so, speculating that they could have a huge impact on developer productivity once all of the major gotchas were worked out. I specifically though that pairing a decent laptop with an SSD would be awesome, since laptops generally have significantly slower hard disks than workstations. They’re also a bit slower across the board (cpu, memory bus, etc), so I thought the IO boost from an SSD might even things out.
In December I decided to end the speculation, so I bought an 80G Intel x25m (Gen 2) SSD for my 15″ Unibody MacBook Pro.
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