Best. Computer Upgrade. Ever.

In case you are thinking of upgrading to an SSD, here is a video showing how a dinky 4 year old computer (which was low end even when it came out) can be totally reborn with one.

Specs before:
Mac Mini
Intel 1.6 GHz Core Duo
1.5 GB 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Seagate Momentus 5400.1 80GB 2.5" HDD
Mac OS X 10.5.8

Specs after:
Mac Mini
Intel 1.6 GHz Core Duo
2.0 GB 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
OCZ Vertex OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 60GB 2.5" SSD
Mac OS X 10.5.8

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Science & Technology

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[kuurevie]

Great use of the whole video canvas, bro.

[adnteh]

@kuurevie That's the native resolution of the video. Unfortunately, expanding it wouldn't make it look any better.

[super6plx]

too bad it's a mac

like, not even joking, that's almost a waste

not to mention the 1.5 - 2x more money you spent on the mac

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 but apple still is at 256gb of ram odr maby 512. there are 32gb dimms out for about 4 months the next ones are 64gb dimms i think they will come out 2013 or sth. reg ecc

[HenryTomasino1]

@ComputerInfoChannel Windows XP supports 2 TB of ram... Why doesnt it supprise you Windows 8 wouldnt be the same? All they did was update the handling code... Just like Windows 7 Home Premuim only supports 16GB of ram and Pro supports 64GB, i think, of ram. Its just a simple change in the system to allow more to be handled. Doesnt mean its more efficient or faster, just that it supports more. And 64GB dimms arnt coming out for at least 5-10 years...

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 Yes but it doesnt sound crazy that windows 8 supports 4tb ram. unix and linux is nice. yes i know but better than nothing, its not bad to have a 4tb ram support. i would say a high end server board would support 12 x 8 x 64gb ram. so 6144gb ram because the 64gb dimms will come out soon. and 8 cpus each with 12 ram slots are normal for high end server boards. and maby mac os can support 512gb ram than

[HenryTomasino1]

@ComputerInfoChannel And unix and linux supports 10 petabytes. Apperantly you dont know that just because its on Wiki does not make it true... In fact anything on wiki that is a comparison of two things is overly bias, and generally full of shit ;D No windows board, aside from server boards which wont use W8 anyway, supports 8 DIMM slots. Its not going to happen anyway. The controllers are too complicated to extend that far on a gaming skew.

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 It is not because x code i mean you can compile c files which work on windows for a mac. you can even compile visual basic code for a mac.

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 It supports 4096gb of ram and mac can maby support 8x 32gb so 256gb because it supports max 8 slots. look up the windows 8 features in wikipedia " en . wikipedia . org/wiki/Windows_8 ". apple makes bad operation system, the fact that they dont even make their own kernel as the biggest company in the world is funny :D.

[HenryTomasino1]

@ComputerInfoChannel Windows 8 does not support 4096GB of ram... Mac doesnt have an upwards limit, aside from how many slots the boards have. And since many Mac boards have 8 DIMM slots... Well it blows Microsoft out of the water in that respect. If Xcode wasnt so complicated Mac would be a strong competitor to Microsoft. But Xcode is complicated to the point that you simply cannot cheat the system without doing hardware bypasses or knowing the root password.

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 but max just supports 64gb of ram ? doesnt it ? windows 8 does support 4096 gb :D. its much better for workstations and all other things because it works on almost every machine. mac is just working on mac ( or sth with a special bootloader).

[HenryTomasino1]

@ComputerInfoChannel Do you realize that OSX is a better operating system than any of the windows so far? Do you realize that Unix and Linux have always been better and always be better than windows performance wise? Do you realize that MACs make better workstations than any windows system out there? Do you know your an absolute twat?

[ComputerInfoChannel]

@HenryTomasino1 I do know