Hi, It’s time to upgrade my laptop and I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about the solid state drive. The guys at Apple highly recommend it, … “Worth it” is a relative term. It depends on what’s most important to you. I swapped out the standard hard drive in my laptop for a SSD. In my experience the SSD is marginally faster (at reads, at least) and noticably lighter. If you’re worried about falls / drops then the SSD also has an advantage of no moving parts. …

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