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Yep, i love my SSD. I bought a 128GB Crucial M4 as it, and Intel have the best reputation for reliability. I was initially going to get just 64 GB but windoze takes up close to 20GB, which doesn't leave much for anything else...i've already used up 46GB (you want to leave 10-15% of the drive free...don't fill it to the brim). There are faster SSD's out there, cheaper too, but once you're down from 5hrs to 20 seconds off-to-completely-ready-to-use, i really can't see the advantage of even faster drives, at the sake of reliability (ok, Solitaire will load in 0.33 seconds, rather than 0.5 seconds).
Installation is pretty easy, although i installed mine before windows. i.e. the laptop was brand new, out of the box. Just a matter of undoing all the screws to get to the HDD bays, pulling the HDD out of its caddy, popping the SSD in its place, and fitting the HDD to the secondary bay.
If you don't have a second HDD bay, either get as big an SSD you can afford, and use a portable/external HDD drive, or you can find caddies that fit in the optical drive bay, and put a secondary HDD in there (it may be tricky to find one that perfectly fits your laptop).
But before i installed the drive, i downloaded and burnt to an ISO, firmware update for my M4. Updated the firmware for the SSD first, then installed windoze.
In regards to migration, i used Acronis True Image to make an image of my old laptop HDD onto a USB3 HDD, and then copied what ever i needed. You could also find a sata to usb cable, and drag over whatever you need from your old HDD that is connected to the laptop with a usb.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean about Windows verification bart. After putting in the CD key and installing, select register over the phone (or words to that effect) chose Australia, and call the number. You punch in the numbers you're given on screen into the phone and punch in those that you're given back into the laptop. Fully automated, no personal details or anything.
Or...avoid installing one of the updates (wish i remembered which), that gives you the 'Genuine Advantage' lol....or get linux....
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