SSD is going to be expensive for a while. HHD is more interesting in the short term. With memory prices dropping the hard drive cache is increased to as much as 1 GB. This shouldn't add much to cost. Of course the data loss will be much worse when computers crash.
>First, you may want to wait to get that new laptop until later this year >or early in 2008. There are a number of interesting new hardware >features coming. One is called a "solid-state drive," or SSD, which >replaces the traditional hard disk with a faster drive made of memory >chips like those used in digital cameras. Another is a "hybrid hard >drive," or HHD, which combines memory chips with a standard hard disk, >for faster start-ups. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
