On 15/10/16 01:23, David Paste wrote:
For the average user (web, email, music, movies, etc), is there going
to be any difference between these two drives? I googled and saw pages
containing answers, but they all merged into one mass of numbers which
frankly I didn't fully understand.

Simple answers would be most appreciated.

Any other brand worth looking at?

(It'll be replacing a 5200 rpm drive in a new-to-me laptop running
Ubuntu for the shed, currently is is a bit creaky, am I barking up the
wrong tree to assume an SSD will improve the snappiness of the user
interface?)

What (numerical) model laptop, CPU, Graphics, RAM?

Standard Ubuntu's Unity Interface can be a bit heavy especially if you
have a poor graphics chipset or are missing a crucial driver.

Try a lighter distribution/interface. i.e. Mint/MATE, Xubuntu/XFCE,
Lubuntu/LXDE etc...

Linux might be screaming under the hood but if the interface is like
wading through nonaccelerated graphical mud, adding an SSD won't be a
comprehensive fix. Sure it might boot faster. But ....

There are some laptops with junk chipsets that are only good for running
certain versions of windows, as that's all the effort the manufacturers
have done.

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Adrian C