Kingston SSD 64gb w/laptop upgrade kit

Salt-City_Slasher

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I was researching for a ssd for a tm2t laptop that I am going to buy here soon.
And I was looking at this Kingston 64gb ssd and it seems very promising.

What I wanted to know is, it comes with a clone software, so I could transfer Windows 7 and the whole shabang over to the ssd. So I figured I would put the ssd in the laptop and use the the 500gb HD that comes with it into the the usb dock thing that comes with the ssd kit.

What I wanted to know is if you think 64gb's is enough for a a laptop.
My current laptop says 12gb free of 75, and it contains Vista home 32bit, CS4, MS Office, and several other sort of high gb programs.

So I am concerned I will need more than 64 for all my programs, because I didn't want to put programs on an external drive.
 

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Well from what you said your current setup is using 63G, so after the 64G SSD is formatted you might have like 60-62G so your already to big to fit on the SSD. A 64G drive is a waste of time and money. The only time I would recommend one is for a boot drive only, but in a laptop that dont make sense.

And since you dont have the laptop yet, I assume your going to clone from the PC you have now? Forget it, it wont work without tons of issues. It will have 100s of drivers/registrys from the old machine and cause nothing but problems.

Your best bet is to use Laplink PC mover if you need your old stuff on the new PC.
 

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cool, but I was talking about clonging the new hp laptops hd to sdd.
But if I do this it is going to be way down the line because I was calculating
how much its going to cost and how much for upgrades I will have,
and I wanted to get it stockwith 4gb's 1 dimm and buy one from newegg, but
I will probably just buy the whol 8gbs so the the 2 dimms match.

I just wanted to make sure my laptop ran as fast as possible, I know the videos I saw were of the tm2t or tm2 when it had the intel core duo, so if I get the new i5 470 along with 8gb's, I am sure to have a super duper fast laptop that isn't that sluggish.

I guess down the road I will consider a 128bit or something but for now 64 is just pushing it.
I should have all the cash within 2 months! But my Dell 1210 is a big load of garbage so this new tm2t is going to be 10x better with out a SSD!