For me, it's still not the time to replace my HDD to SSD just a simple fact, capacity. You'll love the speedy boot up, transfer files and accessing HDD but in end, capacity will be your main concern which most games and programs take up many spaces within few months. You can store your programs on another external drive but it's not the best solution imo.

Btw, SSD doesn't make much of a difference in gaming.

Hrmm, you have a point, the price/capacity ratio is way too screwed up for SDDs. But, IINM the Y460 comes with a 500GB 5200RPM HD, would the performance boost be noticable if I change it to a 7200RPM unit? Coz I multitask alot and I really appreciate the speedy access times. An SSD would probably reduce alot of heat and increase battery life at the same time., although the price is still too high and the capacity is too low... hrmm...

This post has been edited by Maverick_Neutron: May 7 2010, 03:10 PM

Pros & Cons between SSD & HDD.
See which one you prefer.

-pWs-

I have used 2.5" 7200rpm HDD.
The performance is no where near the SSD.
For notebook, upgrading to SSD will give you excellent performance gain.
I can't resist to SSD now.

I even upgraded to SSD for my netbook.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/830613/+1267

With SSD, your notebook is no longer notebook. It's running like high performance desktop.
With SSD, your netbook is no longer netbook. It's running like notebook.
Get what I mean?

sam, did u try to game with the wireless keyboard & mouse? say like first person shooter game... any lag or not?

good question. I try it with GTA4, seems laggy. But don't knw isit game requirement too high hence lag or what.

Later try play with normal one see how

Why not lower the settings? use medium?

lagging as in control's lag, not the graphics lag...

Bro, any changes in the power consumption after changed to SSD? Should be better in theory right?

GTA 4 does require bit more juice than usual games so it's better to do a benchmark test which comes with it and see which settings play nice with HD 5650.
As for keyboard lag, that might related to graphics also, but you can try switch between laptop keyboard and wireless to see the difference.

already use o, but still lagging abit when driving


control lag macam tarak eh

hm...yea hor, i shud use the benchmark test see how how....thanks

If change to SSD, how to clone the HDD data to SSD? Any recommended software to do so?

-pWs-

Theoretically SSD should have slight lower power consumption. But i think it negligible.
However, you'll find SSD runs at much lower temperature. SSD is lighter too.

For notebook, there are not many parts you can replace to boost the performance.
SSD becomes the most crucial upgrade for notebook & netbook.
You just can't skip that.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: May 7 2010, 11:39 PM

Bro, you sound like an ambassador or a priest from the temple of SSD.. heh.. jk chill. But yeah, can't deny the facts that its a big performance boost. If the Y460 has 2 HD bays, it would be a no brainer, but unfortunately has only 1.. so, have to think about it abit.. I might go for it tho, an 80GB module could be bearable... just...

I wan to ask about the touchpad izzit sensitive as macbook??
I mean for double touch function.. ^^

here is the test on Modern Warfare 2:

NOTE: this is based on Power Plan setting - i've choose Power Saver mode (with a lil'bit changes on it's own current setting)
this test also is on plug-in - without using battery
if i didnt make any changes on the current setting (Power Saver mode),
the temp will be a lil'bit higher (around 3c-5c)
game setting: high

during the test:


after the test:


..next will try to test it out on SC - FA (Supreme Commander 2 - Forged Alliance)

in the future, will test it out on Supreme Commander 2, Dirt 2 ..

This post has been edited by Mie131085: May 8 2010, 03:55 AM

@Mie131085

The temp on your laptop does look good but somehow I'm a bit curious why your GPU clock is lower than usual... it should be 450/800 idle and 550/800 load.

If you have a screenshot on GPU-Z showing the HD 5650 info, that will let us know more .

Active Image 4.0 / Acronis True Image 2010 / Norton Ghost can do the job just fine.

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Added on May 8, 2010, 10:21 amStorage is not an issue.
You can have SSD in your notebook.
Take out the HDD from your notebook, get an enclosure and use it as external storage.


This post has been edited by ALeUNe: May 8 2010, 10:21 AM

for notebook, shud be using :

Intel X-25M Gen 2 80GB SSD rite?

This post has been edited by samlee860407: May 8 2010, 11:53 AM

hey sam... how did the game test with wireless keyboard+mice go?