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Old 05-25-2009, 03:22 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by dieKatze88 View Post
SSD looks great on paper, but unless you're running an operating system that aggressively abuses memory to cache data (read: Vista, 7) You're going to be in for a world of hurt. The netbook we have where I work to do network testing takes almost a full 6 minutes to boot. And that's after I stripped it out.
Interesting.

However, in the case of SSD, aside from the trade-off of having lower capacity, isn't it that SSD drives are *supposed* to better in all aspects compared to HDDs (in terms of performance)??? Yet then again, I've read one time in Dailytech and Annandtech that it does have a few issues regarding the limit of read/write cycles (like what flash memory is experiencing)............or was it just my imagination?

Anyways, please care enlighten me (or us for those who are interested).

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I dunno what the reviews say, but from personal experience I know the keyboard is tiny and hard to use, the screen is an odd shape so it uses weird resolutions making it hard to play games that don't stretch to fit the screen, and because of the small screen I think it's kinda hard to read/see things sometimes.

This is the one I got for my wife: Newegg.com - Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 Blue Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 160GB HDD Netbook - Netbooks

I've only used it a few times, I'm not especially fond of it but she likes it a lot. They're great on battery life.
Hmm.......you do have a point.

In fact, the best case-in-point lies in the VAIO P that I just saw a few days ago. It's definitely cheap, portable and has superb battery life (that's 45nm process technology at work hehe). However, the screen size and resolution is just.............

Heck, I personally don't know if I could bare such and that's why that I may not personally consider a netbook/nettop............unless it is really necessary imho.

I'm yet to be impressed by it as of the moment though I'm still willing to change my mind if something promising comes up.

Just my two cents here
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