Been using an SSD in my Macbook Pro for the last year ... easily the best computer upgrade I've made in my lifetime (no kidding) ... Photoshop and Netbeans open up in 5-9 seconds, booting into OS X takes less than 30-40 seconds and applications generally fire up in the blink of an eye. One word of caution though, when the SSD runs out of free blocks and has to re-use blocks marked as deleted, the performance hit can…
Yes, SSD is great. It works even better in high end PC's which are FAR faster than Macbook Pro's. I have one in an i7 based pc at 4ghz on pretty high end motherboard. I can load Photoshop in about 1 to 2 seconds. So I'm not sure why your mac takes 5-9 seconds other than maybe they typically use cheap chips for the bus I/O etc. Macs tend to be slower at drive operations, even when an SSD is in place. I keep hearing ab…
If your laptop is your profession then you care about the tools you use, you're right it's not down to speed, it's down to the thought that goes into every element of both the hardware design and user interface that means my computer thinks along the same lines as me.
The cost extra is minimal when you offset it across 2-3 years of earning but the difference it makes in small increments to your daily working life is more than worth it.