Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Dec 2008 21:29 UTC
While solid state drives are very well suited for netbooks from a power efficiency viewpoint, they pose problems when it comes to capacity (and performance, but that's another matter). In order to combat this issue, MSI has launched a new netbook with a hybrid approach to storage: it has a solid state drive for the operating system and applications, and a conventional hard drive for storage.
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RE[3]: Performance probs will be gone soonish
by phoenix on Fri 2nd Jan 2009 18:27
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phoenix blustered back...
"Except price. You want a faster SSD, you have to pay a higher price, which could push it out of the inexpensive range, and make it a poor seller. Anything over $300 is really hard to justify, even with such high portability, and if you're going to spend over $500, you may as well just get a laptop.
"Except price. You want a faster SSD, you have to pay a higher price, which could push it out of the inexpensive range, and make it a poor seller. Anything over $300 is really hard to justify, even with such high portability, and if you're going to spend over $500, you may as well just get a laptop.
I see you're one of those people who are unable to see something with the size, portability, and price--yes price-- of these devices as anything other than a toy.
Too bad for you, you're going to be missing out on a lot of fun and useful stuff by persisting in this error. "
Nice try. See, I have an Asus eeePC 701, and use it just about everyday. It's quite a useful little thing. But there's no way I'd pay over $500 CDN for one, no matter how fast the CPU/SSD was.
RE[4]: Performance probs will be gone soonish
by tomcat on Sat 3rd Jan 2009 08:23
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Nice try. See, I have an Asus eeePC 701, and use it just about everyday. It's quite a useful little thing. But there's no way I'd pay over $500 CDN for one, no matter how fast the CPU/SSD was.
Quite right. The reason that Netbooks are popular is primarily because of price. Once the price point rises to the same level as a low-end notebook, you might as well use the notebook -- because the notebook is actually a better deal for the money, in terms of CPU, memory, storage, display, keyboard, expansion, etc.
RE[4]: Performance probs will be gone soonish
by bornagainenguin on Sun 4th Jan 2009 06:27
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Member since:2005-08-07
phoenix retorted...
Nice try. See, I have an Asus eeePC 701, and use it just about everyday. It's quite a useful little thing. But there's no way I'd pay over $500 CDN for one, no matter how fast the CPU/SSD was.
Oh, yes--I do see. No wonder you consider it a toy if you have one of the broken Celeron models! (Yes, broken--any laptop whose battery can drain dead even while off is broken in my opinion.) Not to mention the utter uselessness of a mobile device that is incapable of getting more than two hours battery life in general, but that's just me...
If you could only use one of the Atom processor models with a well setup installation of Ubuntu I think you'd probably change your mind on the value of these little laptops. It really is night and day in difference with an EeePC that can last somewhere on the average of seven or more hours use and yet can still do CPU intensive tasks.
--bornagainpenguin
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kragil pointed out...
phoenix blustered back...
I see you're one of those people who are unable to see something with the size, portability, and price--yes price-- of these devices as anything other than a toy.
Too bad for you, you're going to be missing out on a lot of fun and useful stuff by persisting in this error.
For the first time in my life I have true computing portability with my ASUS EeePC 901. I can write, surf the net, play games, listen to music, play videos, compile code...
Anything I could do on my desktop I can do on my ASUS EeePC, but with the bonus of being able to take my EeePC with me anywhere. Without going frantic over whether or not the 6-8hr battery will last long enough to complete my work until I can get to a power outlet.
Why would I (or anybody else) want to spend more money on a "real" laptop whose size makes a complete mockery out its supposed portability when there are finally affordable options that deliver on their promises?
While I'm not exactly thrilled at the options game the various netbook companies are playing right now, if I have to pay more I'll do so to enhance the truly portable device, not to get the overheated behemoth with its two hour (if I'm lucky) battery life.
--bornagainpenguin