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| Thread ID: 87778 | 2008-03-03 22:26:00 | EEEPC v2.0? | Thebananamonkey (7741) | PC World Chat |
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| 646093 | 2008-03-06 02:33:00 | Use adblock then :illogical I am sure that pressf1 wouldn't support that idea, as they have to pay for the site. I don't mind ads, but on a small screen resolution, it could be a problem when they take up such a large part of the top of the page. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 646094 | 2008-03-06 07:06:00 | There will be 256GB SSDs by 2009 with 128GB SSDs by the middle of this year. | vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 646095 | 2008-03-06 07:12:00 | A 1TB SSD has already been produced. You can't afford it. | Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 646096 | 2008-03-06 07:58:00 | A 1TB SSD has already been produced. You can't afford it. Well I would imagine that the 128GB and 225GB SSDs will be affordable. ;) |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 646097 | 2008-03-06 08:37:00 | There will be 256GB SSDs by 2009 with 128GB SSDs by the middle of this year. If you look at the prices of SSDs here www.flashcards.co.nz you can see that the EEEPC is badly priced. Nor is the Apple Air for the 64GB drive, if a 64GB drive costs over $4000 |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 646098 | 2008-03-06 09:19:00 | I think the EEEPC is great. It's a perfectly functioning computer with wireless capabilities and some zippy storage at the price of a cell phone. I started Uni this year and the EEEPC seems to be what everyone is talking about. It's nice and compact/light, you don't have to worry that you'll damage the HDD if you run around with it in your bag, and of course it's cheap as! Can't go wrong. And WOW, I had no idea SSD's were costing that much. Is it likely that those web pages are just outdated? I've heard of quite a few manu's through the last quarter looking at implementing solid state drives by around next year, so I'd recommend not buying from that site for that price! Geez, 64gb for like 4.1k, wonder if its including gst :X |
Deathwish (143) | ||
| 646099 | 2008-03-06 20:56:00 | SSD's are totally over-rated. Amazing, but totally unusable performance. You can afford a 64gig SSD now, if you don't mind not sending your kids to university. HDD ftw, cheap price, fast enough. A lot of people have benchmarked the Apple Air SSD against it's HDD cousin and said there's next to no performance increase at all. No point in them, apart from ultra-ultra-miniaturisation ie: EEE. | Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 646100 | 2008-03-06 22:08:00 | No point in them, apart from ultra-ultra-miniaturisation ie: EEE. I should think an SSD would be a lot more robust in a mobile device than a hard drive - to me that is the main point - not speed. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 646101 | 2008-03-06 23:18:00 | Yes, the fact that there are no mechanical parts is a great advantage, even if the speed increase is not much just yet Even so, the standard hard drive isn't going anywhere yet, as you can tell from the prices of SSD drives The hard drive will only truly be gone when SSD is cheaper and much faster As for reliability, I'm not so sure. We've all heard about USB sticks dying with no warning At least with hard drives you can usually tell when there's a problem - bad performance, strange noises, and then there's S.M.A.R.T. which isn't entirely useless if you know how to interpret it properly |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 646102 | 2008-03-07 06:18:00 | SSD's are totally over-rated. Amazing, but totally unusable performance. You can afford a 64gig SSD now, if you don't mind not sending your kids to university. HDD ftw, cheap price, fast enough. A lot of people have benchmarked the Apple Air SSD against it's HDD cousin and said there's next to no performance increase at all. No point in them, apart from ultra-ultra-miniaturisation ie: EEE. Its called a Student Loan. We're not in the US where basically every blog starts with "If you don't mind dipping into your kids college trust fund..." |
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