Just a thought, Hmm

just a thought about running 2 OS on the same notebook, what if a manufacture put in 2 harddrives (one Sata for MAC OS) and (one Solid State for WINDOWS) becasue of the slowness of boot up time with a switch to boot too

 

Why? Why not just 2 partitions.

 

well for one reason solid state drives are small in capacity but they would boot up quickly for windows, second why have dual booting when you could have a second HD in a notebook and if one crashes you could still get up and running on the other HD, Third what happens if your windows crashes or your mac OS crashes in the dual boot then you'd have to reformat correct so why do a whole HD reformat when you can do one OS format

Thats what I'd prefer over a dual boot system JMO

I'm not sure about having to format the whole HD just if windows crashes in a dual boot, I do think you can format that by it's self,but anyway what if your whole HD dies then what!

 

Allot of manufactures offer duel hardrives or HD/SSD combos. However none of apple's notebooks have duel hard drive bays so duel booting windows and os x off two hard drives on a notebook is not legally possible. However my hp laptop supports two hard drive bays. I have two partitions on the first drive (Vista and OS X) and use the second hard drive as storage. I personally thinks its simpler to have it like that as my notebook does not support RAID. (I guess I could set up RAID in windows but idk if OS X supports it or if it would even work, its too much hassle to try)

Yes you can just reformat/reinstall on just one partition without affecting the other partitions.

 

Well to test that theory Macs would be able to hold two hard drives which is something I do not see in a Macbook/Macbook Pro future.

 

I thought the same thing when u read this. Steve jobs would rather commit sucide than put dual hard drives in his macs as these would increase the weight considerably which is somethinh he would not want to do.

 

In that case Steve Jobs is an idiot, I would love to have two HD bays in my Macbook. SSDs are too expensive right now, but a small 30gb SSD for just the OS and a secondary HD for the files and whatnot would've been perfect.

 

That would be pretty smart, then the company that makes the laptop could get some extra money...but osx and microsoft would have to make a treaty of some sort.

And then you could start adding other things like xbox, ps3 and console OS t ocomputers so you dont have to buy a console if you have a computer that is more powerful than a console and can run a console game or w/e.

That would be neat

 

It would be nice if apple converted the super drive area into a smartbay slot.

 

Yeah, they could charge 200 bucks for it lol

Actually surprised they haven't done this yet

 

Meh or just one of those 4gig Intel Turbo Memory flash modules to speed up boot if it wasn't fast enough already. Or for vista ready boost.

 

People have done this before with MacBook Pros. You just need a uSATA to SATA cable.

 

do these actually boost up the system speed or is it plain advertising?

 

There is not enough room in the current size... if you really want 2 hard drives in there, your going to have to give something else up. Kits for 2nd hard drives replace the optical drive.

like this one

http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=OBSXGB-UNB&Category_Code=

 

They prove to make system start up allot faster, but in terms of performance, they only help when the computer's ram is fully loaded. Then again you might as well buy more ram.

 

I saw these turbo memories in the current line of lenovo T series. I thought that was interesting. But the majority of the time, i don't max out my ram. so getting it would not be a huge performance gain for me.