What are the pros and cons of a solid state drive for imac?

What are the pros and cons of a solid state drive for imac?
I wonder if the SSD is good for replacing a failing hard drive?

However they are dramatically faster than magnetic disk drives, useful for startup and shutdown and frequently accessed apps and fi.e

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1.What are the pros and cons of installing java+abap stack for portal?
2.what effect it does on the ume options to be choosen??
3.for the purpose of integration of r3,bw and crm on portal and crm 4.0 60.2.3 business package which option of stack(java or abap or both)will be good option and which ume option while installation should be choosen?
regards
Rajendra

Hi Rajendra,
The NetWeaver Installation Master Guide offers some good scenarios on the pros and cons:
https://websmp201.sapag.de/~sapidb/011000358700005412792005E.pdf
In a nutshell:
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- Less costly
Cons
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- Additional load on the server due to ABAP stack
- Limited scalability
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- Allows each system to be single-use purpose therefore downtime does not affect other components
- More scalable
Cons
- Adds complexity to landscape
- Additional costs
Regards,
Thomas Pham

HT204053 What are the pros and cons of 1) choosing to use the SAME Apple ID for iCloud services on one side, and purchases on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore, on the other side; or 2) to have and use two separate Apple Ids for these "two sides

All is in the title, so I repeat it below with a better identation.
What are the pros and cons of
1) choosing to use the SAME
Apple ID for iCloud services on one side, and
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I have loads and loads of free podcasts in iTunes in my iMac, that are certainly more thant the 5 gigas the iCloud provides for free, so I don't want those to go to the cloud. But this is perhaps a different question...
Also need to mention that I have itunes on a mac, a pc and an iphone.
Sorry to look so silly with this question, but I don't get the "big picture".

You need to create a user account for your wife (or yourself depending on who has the current user account). When syncing, each of you should sign in as a separate user, login to iTunes and then sync. I had this problem when my sister got an iPhone. When we did her initial sync, everything on my iPhone showed up on hers. Apple gave me this solution.

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I do like the idea of a simple and uncluttered work environment with an iMac, added to which there's also a degree of portability with the iMac however the MacPro is obviously more powerful. I'm not sure how much the difference in power between the two computers would affect me.
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However, if you dont find yourself doing large scale projects, then you might be better off going with an imac. We just purchased one for my father and it runs great! It blows the socks off of my Dual 2.5 G5 tower in terms of CPU speed! If you run into problems running things from the imac, you could always add a mac-mini down the road to stream sample libs, as a Logic node, etc, which seems to be a much more cost effective solution.
I hope this was helpful, but I probably just made the decision harder . In fact, if I were to start over today, I dont know if I'd go with a MacPro, or an iMac / mac mini combination. they both seem to have their advantages / disadvantages.
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I'm a new explorer in the OS X UNIX world, and have installed macports, and, for the most part, succeeded in building and using a number of scientific applications.
I have noted a somewhat negative attitude by some on the use of port systems, while others seem quite content with them.
When making my decision to use macports, these "selling points" seemed desirable to me:
¤ Confines ported software to a private “sandbox” that keeps it from intermingling with your operating system and its vendor-supplied software to prevent them from becoming corrupted.
¤ Allows you to create pre-compiled binary installers of ported applications to quickly install software on remote computers without compiling from source code.
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_I'm not trying to start a feud, here._
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For example, maybe you want to install the MacPorts version of PHP, great, but the standard Apache won't use that, so you either need to install the MacPorts version of Apache, or tweak your Apache installation to use the non-standard PHP version.
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This becomes more of an issue in a multi-server environment where you have multiple systems that all need tweaking/maintaining - nothing worse than setting up a new server by copying an existing installation, only to find that it depends on MacPorts/fink/whatever being installed.
The corollary to this is that these package managers often install ancillary software that you do not need, nor want. It might have improved since I last looked, but installing either MacPorts or fink, for example, installs whole new versions of perl, GNU tools (gzip/gunzip, etc.), curl, and more - they even install new copies of openssl/ssh.
I don't want these. These already exist on my system so what are they needed for? Why can't they use the standard copies? Are they 'tweaked' in some way? How? why?
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(download>
./configure
make
sudo make install
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GET OFF MY LAWN! :-D

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