If you weren’t convinced that the most dramatic upgrade you can do to a Mac is install a solid state drive in its belly, check this video out.
15 seconds. Just 15 seconds. That’s how long it takes a 3.4GHz Sandy Bridge iMac armed with a Sandy Bridge processor and an SSD drive to launch all of its apps simultaneously.
Seriously, although the processor plays a part here, even the 1.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Air with SSD is the fastest seeming Mac I’ve ever played with. If you’ve been hemming and hawing over whether or not to make a MacBook Air your next laptop, just do it.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
