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Old 02-14-2014, 12:17 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by DJCarbine View Post
FWIW I had a thinkpad twist with an i5 and standard harddrive. Flash times did not improve/change when I switched to a 120gb Samsung EVO 840 SSD. Everything else was faster, but flash times felt the exact same
I think its a combination where a regular drive and slow processor will be way slower than SSD and fast/new processor.

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I have a MBP and I was thinking to upgrade to a SSD with Bootcamp to improve the flash times.
If not I might consider a cheap Windows laptop.
I'm not too happy of my MBP performance, but it will honestly depend on how much do you plan on flashing. If you want to flash say once a week, it's not a big deal at all. But I am flashing 4-5 times a night right now fine tuning driveability and then dyno time and for that its a PITA to wait inside the car 3-4 minutes everytime.
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