{"id":2162,"date":"2013-02-22T07:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olafbathke.de\/photography-blog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2013-02-22T07:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T07:59:55","slug":"should-i-buy-a-new-ssd-for-my-old-macbookpro-yes-you-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olafbathke.de\/photography-blog\/2013\/02\/22\/should-i-buy-a-new-ssd-for-my-old-macbookpro-yes-you-should\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I buy a new SSD for my old MacBookPro? Yes you should!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe title=\"Lightroom Rendering with a new SSD on an old Mac Book Pro\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bxj-t07xeSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>I f you are considering the investment in a new iMac because your pre Retina MacBookPro is too slow think about investing in a new SSD instead.<\/p>\n<p>I have my new SSD from Samsung since yesterday and I am so happy with it.<\/p>\n<p>Everything runs so smooth and fast.<\/p>\n<p>Especially the preview rendering of Lightroom is so much faster.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard about the problems ordering the new iMac I had a quick look at the specs of it.<\/p>\n<p>The CPU of my \u201eold\u201c Mac Book Pro is not too far away from the one in the new iMacs.<\/p>\n<p>So investing 2400\u20ac in a new iMac that would be probably delivered in 3 month was not so attractive than investing in a new SSD.<\/p>\n<p>My Hard Disk has problems too so I had to buy a new piece of hardware anyway.<\/p>\n<p>8 GB RAM and a 2.1 i7 Quad Core CPU seems good for most of my software. Especially Lightroom has more problems delivering the data than processing it.<\/p>\n<p>My hardware dealer did the math: It took probably 1-1,5 seconds to display a 5D mark II photo on the screen with my old hard disk. The new Samsung SSD should take probably 1\/4 of a second. I guess it is faster now. And I don\u2018t have only 250GB SSD build as a fusion drive. I have the old amount of 500GB as solid state disk build inside.<\/p>\n<p>Not forget to mention the noise: It seemed that the old hard disk was responsible for the fan running like hell. Everything is so quite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I f you are considering the investment in a new iMac because your pre Retina MacBookPro is too slow think about investing in a new SSD instead. I have my new SSD from Samsung since yesterday and I am so happy with it. Everything runs so smooth and fast. 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