I'm sure games would certainly benefit from being run from an SSD. Especially large FPSs that access data from a drive frequently. they'll load much quicker as well. My thinking is keep the OS, plus applications and games on the SSD for best performance, basically anything that's in "Program Files".
With those things which don't really benefit from a fast SSD, like MP3s, photos, movies, "Documents" etc, put them on the slower cheaper large capacity mechanical HDD.
I'm going to disagree here.
SSD's are arguably horrible for gaming and more of a "luxury" than anything for people who want a faster boot up.
At still over 100$ for about 60 gigs.. Your going to have 30 gigs or less after OS installation which means you can have maybe 3 ish games on it at any time.
From there your not going to get much of a "performance" difference.. Most of the advantage you would see is in the loading screen. and even then.. Some games are just horrible on load no matter what you do.
Now, being totally fair.. most people who get solid state drives aren't expecting a major bump in terms of performance in terms of FPS or anything else. It is more about quicker boot times.
A nice feature to have, but something I really can't justify for myself or my gaming rig. Lots of people can't live without them, but honestly I prefer mechanical keyboards or higher quality headphones and am waiting till i can get more bang per buck with an SSD.
If my netbook horrible boot times, I'd consider it just because class to class I want to turn my laptop on an use it asap.. But, honestly the thing works fine.
Of course. That still doesn't change the fact that it's safer for whatever reason.i also think its much faster, smoother and user friendly than Windows will ever be, but that's personal preference
It is only safer until enough people begin using them.
Windows is the biggest target because it is the most frequently used. If enough people begin using OSX, it will become a target and it will be exploited.
Whether you believe it or not, there has been some major opportunities for Mac users to be seriously exploited in the past.. The only reason we hear about the after the patch unlike windows, is because there are so few mac users (historically speaking, although this may very well be changing) that no one bothered to write malware for a mac.
Any computer is built on system on top of system, and systems can be broken.
Also.. I've seen what I would call "similar" performance between OSX and win7 honestly. When you have a decent pc rig vs a decent mac rig there is really a non-existent difference for the most part.