SSDs in laptops

[pby5cat]

I need a 13 -14 inch laptop for a school project and I have found some good ones, but a SSD is a requirement. Some companies dont even offer SSD like dell and others are charging a lot for large size drives.

Any opinions or experiences about buying a laptop with a HDD and replacing it with a SDD, any warranty concerns?

[Jokester_wild]

Shouldn't be a warranty concern, all laptops I have worked with are very easy to access the laptop bays. Switching back to the stock drive if the need to send back arises shouldn't be a problem.

[FlawleZ]

Buy a regular laptop from Dell or wherever. Purchase your favorite SSD from Newegg. (60GB Agility 2 is one of best bangs for buck right now) Yank out lame magnetic drive from laptop and install your new SSD. Format with Windows and you're good to go. Should be as easy as 1-2-3.

[zanzabar]

Buy a regular laptop from Dell or wherever. Purchase your favorite SSD from Newegg. (60GB Agility 2 is one of best bangs for buck right now) Yank out lame magnetic drive from laptop and install your new SSD. Format with Windows and you're good to go. Should be as easy as 1-2-3.

+1 on what to do, but its not that easy.

most prebuilts dont come with a windows disk and use special OEM versions for each maker. so u will most likely need to shrink the windows partition to the size of the ssd (or less to make room for the recovery partition then use something like windows or acronus to image the drive.

[m1013828]

get a laptop with 2 Hard disks, dell studio 17 etc, and swap one drive out for an SSD. then you can keep recovery partition etc on the larger drive.

[TJ TRICHEESE]

get a laptop with 2 Hard disks, dell studio 17 etc, and swap one drive out for an SSD. then you can keep recovery partition etc on the larger drive.

im pretty sure he said he wanted a 13-14 inch drive

[sniper_sung]

Just buy a regular laptop and replace the hdd with Intel X25-M. Don't worry about warranty.

[tomb18]

I did this on my Sony Vaio Z_series. Although it is available with SSD's, it is more cost effective to do it yourself. As a mater of fact, the Z-series offers raid 0 as an option (all the way to 512k-$$$$) or you can get the bracket and cable from sonypartsexpress and do it yourself with 1.8" ssd's.
The sony allows ypou to creat recovery disks as do most laptops and you use these.
The sony is great if you can afford it. Carbon fiber, 2.6Ghz dual core, blu-ray, nvidia and intel graphics, 13" high def led display, gps, 3G, and all under 3 pounds.

[CmB]

I replaced my Dell's hdd with a SSD. Aside from the lowly 40GB [I'm cheap lol] I have no complaints. Yep, I voided the warranty but I'm not worried about that personally. I just used the dell restore disk that came with my laptop and loaded drivers. Works like a charm and my unoptimized SSD boots under 30s.

[cirons]

I just got the Latitude E4310 13" from dell outlet for $600 after a 25% coupon and i have the ADATA S599 128GB in route to home from the egg. Basically the exact same thing you are doing/going to do. I've only had this laptop for about 4.5 hours now but i'm really liking it, i think i will like it a lot better with the new SSD, fresh install of w7pro 64, and 8gb ram.