Has anybody applied the latest Snow Leopard Performance Update to a macbook pro with an SSD instead of the stock Seagate drive? I have a 17" 2.93ghz MBP with a Crucial 128gb SSD inside and wonder if I should avoid this update. Any comments would be welcome.
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Apply Performance Update 1.0 to MBP with SSD?
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I don't think it will make a difference for SSD users, it is mainly for those people who had issues with HDD's and the heads parking, which caused stalls.
prodigee, it does sound like it's all about the sata hdd installed as stock. still, software update says it's available for me even after I swapped out the drive. I assume that apple's flag for applying the SU is simply the model number, not a check on the drive. I'll stay away from it until somebody who has an SSD can verify that it is beneficial. I don't have any of these SBD problems anyway.
Oh I know, I was just saying that it is mainly geared toward the HDD crowd, but at the same time it would be pretty difficult for Apple to just send the update to people with just stock HDD's. But I am sure there are minor tweaks across the board.
I never had any beachball problems, but I updated anyway, no problems at all... I'm on EFI 1.7 as well.
Any idea what those tweaks could be? The tech note seemed to imply the fix was something to do with accessing the HDD, the I/O stuff.
The update appears in my SU, but I'm still a bit too scared to apply it.
Did it and it didn't do a thing for me - bad or otherwise. Intel X25 160 SSD runs same as it did before being updated, great.