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At KitGuru we use our Macbooks on a regular basis for writing up news and reviews in the office and on the go. We noticed a huge improvement in the OS X experience after installing the solid state drive which we believe justifies the cost. Load times were improved across the board, especially the boot time which was reduced from a minute to a mere 18 seconds. We also saw great improvements in performance in the synthetic tests.
Some people may be worried about invalidating their warranty. We have had personal experience of Apple support and you shouldn't run into any issues as long as you reinstall the original hard drive before you take it in. Be warned though that Apple may not honor your warranty if you cause damage yourself while replacing the hard drive. It sounds logical, but it is worth saying.
Moving on to the Kingston SSDNow V+100 64Gb solid state drive itself, the performance figures we obtained in our tests are impressive. Combined this with Kingston's 3-year warranty and top notch build quality and you have a recipe for a very impressive SSD.
Unfortunately the price of the 64 GB Kingston drive lets it down a little as it's more expensive than a lot of competing drives at £125 at Ebuyer. The 96 GB and 128 GB drives in Kingston's V+100 series are priced much more competitively, though, so we feel they are a much better buy. The extra space they provide may also prove very useful. The 96 GB model is available for £135 at Ebuyer and the 128 GB model is available for around £155 at Ebuyer.
KitGuru says: A must have upgrade that definitely justifies the cost.
Nice idea, should help a lot of people who dont want to pay Apple £500 for a £100 drive 🙂
I always wondered how they got away with their SSD pricing. Lately it has dropped a little to be fair to them.
64gb is too small tbh. 96gb is a better idea.
Forgot upgrading your cheap made in taiwan apple computer; its made from scrap and discarded parts aniway and priced sky high by cancer better dead liar steve jobs.
Adding a US$200 SSD to your mac book would improve its price from US$50 to about US$200.
Anyway American assholes you would be better now now that Steve assJobs liar the menace is dead. Your fucking country would perhaps slowly come to its foot because you are one liar down. You have to contend with Negrobama for now.
I have installed my Kingston ssd, but now cannot get either my copy of snow leopard or mountain lion to install on it. Help?
Insert the old drive. put the new SSD into a USB enclosure. use carbon copy cloner to copy the internal drive to the SSD in the enclosure. Remove the old drive, replace with the new SSD.
No install needed.