In reply to balmybaldwin:
> and another question, will i have any benefit to performance if I go for Windows 7 over windows 8? (I may have lower blood pressure if I go with 7!)
How's this for a reply. Unless you update Windows 8 to the most recent version of windows 8, then Microsoft don't want to support you. There's some tech jargon in there by Microsoft but they are distancing themselves from Windows 8 much in the same way that they did with Vista.
I have tried Windows 8 briefly and could not even work out how to print a document. Most likely User Stupidity, but its Windows 7 all the way for me.
As for the SSD, I have an SSD on my Desktop PC which is 120Gb in size. I know this is not a laptop which is what you are after but from my experience the 120Gb is plenty big enough for all my software and extras such as punter-type video editing and nothing professional.
At the moment my SSD is using up 72Gb of space, 45Gb of software and the rest in various little projects. This gives me plenty for downloading torrents as well. Only occasionally do I max out the full capacity of my SSD.
I must point out that I do have two other internal hard drives which store all my data and if I had a laptop set-up like your's, then these would be external hard drives.
I'd say having a 128Gb SSD for a laptop and using this for the OS and software will give you plenty of space for workable projects, provided that you have no intention of storing data on the hard drive too. If you want to store movies, photos, music or a combination of all three on the same SSD then you are going to suffer virtually from Day One.
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