So I got pressured into looking at a 27" Mac 3.1ghz 8gb ram blah blah...

[bobbarley]

Mines OCZ, cost about £95 last year.

[clipperjay]

Thats a good price for last year!
I'll defo getting one this year for my comp or laptop to come 

[Dolly]

like anything will always be getting cheaper. mines OCZ 120GB £120

[clipperjay]

Do you guys defrag the SSD's?

[Dolly]

no apparently it can damage them

[clipperjay]

no apparently it can damage them

Okay guess it wouldn't loose speed, but if it went down I'm guessing it would be like my SD cards and it means full format on them?

[Jay]

no apparently it can damage them

SSD's are flash-like-media and have a finite number of writes to each cluster, so defragging it would shorten the length of it's already limited life, limited life meaning that they are 20-25% less reliable than mechanical drives. Some people claim it does improve performance, doubt it would be as drastic an increase as it is on mechanical drives.

[clipperjay]

Thanks for clearing that up mate!
Jay when you said wait a little longer for the second gen i7's what could I expect anylinks of good media laptops?17"
I can't find the laptop I want in i7 2630QM it was a asus N75SF
Ideally I want one with a SDD spare drive bay. I looked at a samsung 700 it was about £1400 odd?
 

[Jay]

I said to wait for the 3rd Gen i core series, they're going to be kick ass, apparently. Faster AND more power efficient than the current i core's, win / win.

Some laptops you can remove the DVD drive and whack in a hard drive as a replacement, though you best check that the laptop you get CAN do this and that these are available for it BEFORE you buy the laptop. Also check that it may be possible to upgrade using a mini PCIE slot inside with one of these :

http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB437GB437&sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&fhp=1&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB437GB437&q=ssd+mini+pci&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=45l12699l0l12971l16l13l0l0l0l2l694l1837l4.3.2.5-1l10l0&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=shop&source=og&sa=N&tab=wf&ei=TgcgT4SoDo-f-QaV5IzEBA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=eee6a6266cfc290a&ion=1&biw=1440&bih=775

[clipperjay]

Ohhhh 3rd gen mmmm April-ish?
Okay I can hold off
I looked at a Asus N55sf smaller brother of the N75 and the screen was alright nothing great TBH.
I just thought the square SSD just plug it in didn't realise they came in PCI-e! Or is this what e-SATA is?