eedork
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I've got the same vintage MBP, the 17" behemoth with the hot (and I mean HOT!) GPU chip. I've still got the 1TB spinner in there (200GB iTunes library is on Mac mini backed up to Time Capsule and NAS) but I'm thinking your 500GB SSD sounds pretty good. Any guidance on who, how, and how much to make it happen?
That's a nice machine!
We use lots of Samsung Pro series SSDs at work and have been very happy with them. So that's what I purchased for my MacBook when I rebuilt it. I got mine on Amazon. It was easy to install and then I just used Apple's existing tools to install a fresh copy of OSX on the new drive. I couldn't believe what a difference that new drive made - it felt like a brand new machine and was significantly faster than it was with the old spinner. Had I known I may not have upgraded to a new MacBook ..
I also added another 4GB of RAM bringing the total to 8GB. However, I'm pretty sure it was the SSD that led to the huge performance increase.
-Matt