After using laptops for many years I had a simple buying strategy, buy a model 12 to 18 months old and double the installed ram before switching it on. This gave me a newish tech laptop at 2/3 of the price of the latest models and always resulted in a laptop which was fine for work. Now I have taken early retirement I am speccing my own and I have 1 problem that I just cannot make up my mind on so any suggestion are very welcome.
For storage I have 3 options.
1. Fit a 120 Gb SSD for the OS.
2. Fit a 120 Gb SSD for the OS and a Seagate Momentus 750GB hybrid with 8Gb SSD.
3. Fit only the Seagate Momentus 750 Gb hybrid
Money is not so important here as the hybrid drive is only £25 more than the normal HDD though I can save £84 by not using the 120 Gb SSD and only having the 8Gb SSD in the hybrid. If the hybrid drive had a 60Gb SSD or even 30Gb then I would probably just go with that but life is just not that simple. What I do not want to do is waste money by having 2 x SSD's if there is little performance improvement.
For storage I have 3 options.
1. Fit a 120 Gb SSD for the OS.
2. Fit a 120 Gb SSD for the OS and a Seagate Momentus 750GB hybrid with 8Gb SSD.
3. Fit only the Seagate Momentus 750 Gb hybrid
Money is not so important here as the hybrid drive is only £25 more than the normal HDD though I can save £84 by not using the 120 Gb SSD and only having the 8Gb SSD in the hybrid. If the hybrid drive had a 60Gb SSD or even 30Gb then I would probably just go with that but life is just not that simple. What I do not want to do is waste money by having 2 x SSD's if there is little performance improvement.