Im buying my mac right now and it asked me if I wanted to make any upgrades. Would spending an extra 90$ dollars be worth it for a 7200rpm hard drive? And will it decrease battery time and make it hotter?

about 1800 rpms better

I bet you dont even know what rpm stands for.

^ lmao! revolutions per minute,

the faster the HD, the more it will heat, but the faster it is the quicker your stuff loads. the newer macbook pros that have the 7200 rpm blow away the older models with 4500 and 5400 rpm. spend the money. itll be worth it.

the 15 inch macbook pros come standard with 5400 rpm.
Dang, I am really blowing my savings. I get no allowance and I have been saving my whole life with business. haha.

It's not worth an extra $90, but it's nice to have.

Edit:

5400 RPM is standard for laptops, because it uses less power. If you go with the 7200 RPM drive, you will lose battery life.

How much shorter will the battery life be? Right now it is 7 hours.
Like in percentage. How much better is the performance with 7200rpm?

This is coming from someone who thinks Buttsex knows what the hell he's saying/doing.


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I trust him more then you. Even if you did know more then him, I wouldnt listen to anything you say cause I don't trust you and your a douche.

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lawl you don't trust me? With that little comment you left for me... I'd give you a real reason not to trust me, little boy.

Little man talks big shit.

Atleast I can talk the talk.




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I'm not sure at all, but if I had to guess, it will knock it down to about four and a half hours.

And how much better performance does 7200rpm give you?

Really not too much at all if you're not doing any gaming or anything. Buying the 7200 over the 5400 literally takes milliseconds off the amount of time it takes to save something.

So it sounds to me like I shouldnt do it.

No you shouldn't. I, personally, would get the cheapest options possible, and upgrade it myself with parts from Newegg or Tigerdirect.

I dont wanna open this baby up. But if you were going to upgrade everything, would you upgrade the hard drive to 7200rpm?

Probably not. Just hard drive capacity and RAM.

Actually the 7200 RPM HDD's are a lot faster, however you'll only notice the performance gain when saving large files, loading the OS, and opening programs. Having a 7200 RPM HDD increases the speed at which the HDD can load data into or out of the RAM. Once it's done either, you will not notice a difference. I have a 10,000 RPM HDD in my computer, and I definitely notice a difference. Of course, it definitely depends on the brand of HDD used.

2.5" HDD Benchmarks:
http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=525X832&a...marks%2C53.html

ehhh, then I think 5400rpm is better. Cause im ok with waiting a little bit longer for stuff but I mainly care about snappiness. How much faster could you save a large file with 7200rpm hard drive.

Exactly. Most prebuilts use Hitachi drives, which are notorious for being crappy.

i posted those bench marks for a reason...

They are very confusing. I didnt understand the site.

It depends on the brand of HDD. Anyway, once a program is loaded into memory you won't notice the difference in performance.