At the July meeting there was plenty of news to discuss with Apple’s WWDC announcements of iOS 6, the Retina Display MacBook Pro and details of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. We also talked about Microsoft’s Surface announcement and the Google Nexus 7 tablet.
Robert gave a talk on SSDs (Solid State Drives, flash memory based hard drives) which Apple are now fitting as standard to many Macs. He covered the principle of operation and some of the advantages and disadvantages of using an SSD. Then he explained how he upgraded his Early 2009 Mac mini with an SSD.
Some useful pages with further information about SSDs:
Storage Review’s comparison of SSDs and HDDs - http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd
Paper on SSD security (technical) by Michael Wei et al. - http://static.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf