I am in the market for a new laptop and I am clueless when it comes to hard drives and all those new storage options like SSD, flash, etc. I know that currently the slowest are 5400RPM mechanical disks, though, but what I don't get is the "SATA Hybrid Drive" thing? What I'm looking at is an 2015 Alienware 13 with QHD Touch Screen display (4K), 16GB of RAM, Intel Core i7 6500U, and GeForce 960 GPU.
I've been a Mac user for quite some time now so those specifications seem really good for me. I'm not going to be playing a lot of games since I already have and frequently use a PlayStation 4, so I'm looking for a portable devices that's powerful enough to handle any tasks I perform like using all Office applications at the same time while having many browser tabs opened, listening to music, and/or watching a video.
From my experience, those are rather simple tasks but they actually take a toll on my 2010 MacBook Pro and it starts lagging quite hard, which is why I'm afraid of buying the new Retina MacBook (intel core M 1.1, 8 gb of ram) even though I like a lot of things about it, I just fear it may perform like my older MBP does (Core i5, 4GB of RAM - 2010).
My main question is whether or not the hard disk I mentioned above is actually slow? And by that I mean both in transfer speeds as well as opening and closing applications. From what I know, flash storage is incredibly fast and has a huge edge when it comes to the speed factor, and so does SSD (if they aren't the same thing, I wouldn't know). I just don't want to dish out a lot of money on something that is slower than the other option.
I also read about the Alienware getting hot and noisy quite fast, is that true?
Thanks a lot guys.
I've been a Mac user for quite some time now so those specifications seem really good for me. I'm not going to be playing a lot of games since I already have and frequently use a PlayStation 4, so I'm looking for a portable devices that's powerful enough to handle any tasks I perform like using all Office applications at the same time while having many browser tabs opened, listening to music, and/or watching a video.
From my experience, those are rather simple tasks but they actually take a toll on my 2010 MacBook Pro and it starts lagging quite hard, which is why I'm afraid of buying the new Retina MacBook (intel core M 1.1, 8 gb of ram) even though I like a lot of things about it, I just fear it may perform like my older MBP does (Core i5, 4GB of RAM - 2010).
My main question is whether or not the hard disk I mentioned above is actually slow? And by that I mean both in transfer speeds as well as opening and closing applications. From what I know, flash storage is incredibly fast and has a huge edge when it comes to the speed factor, and so does SSD (if they aren't the same thing, I wouldn't know). I just don't want to dish out a lot of money on something that is slower than the other option.
I also read about the Alienware getting hot and noisy quite fast, is that true?
Thanks a lot guys.