Feel the Speed
My SSD is installed, and at least all the basic functions of my computer are back up and working. The whole TV thing didn’t turn out to be an issue at all (which I was grateful for), and while I don’t have any exact speed benchmarks to say how much things have sped up, everything definitely feels snappy. The trick as I reinstall stuff will be to balance the location where everything lives since 160 GB definitely won’t be enough for everything. Once I can blow away my old Windows installation though, then I’ll have that hard drive as well to use for general purpose storage.
Despite my attempts to play it, I’m not making all that much progress in FF13. It reminds me a little bit of Metal Gear Solid 2 in the fact that you play for a short while, watch a cutscene, have a battle, watch a cutscene, walk through a door, watch a cutscene… Anyone who knows anything about my game preferences is aware that I’ll never turn down a good story, but there are games, and then there are games that seem like they want to be movies. So far anyway, FF13 is trending towards that latter category.