On Monday 08 November 2010 22:08:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J. > Roeleveld > > did opine thusly: > > > 2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough > > > and the write performance is pathetic. > > > > You must have a lesser then then I've got? > > I have quite decent read/write performance with the 16GB SSD in mine > > (Asus EEE901) > > I think it's a shame there aren't more Netbooks with SSDs. > > Too many manufacturers and users tend to see these as small laptop- > > replacements. These are meant for webbrowsing, email,... NOT to use to do > > your doctorate... > > In all fairness to Acer, the SSDs in the A110 were early generation and > improvements have been made. In the consumer grade, Intel is not too bad, > Samsung is c...@p. And the early JMicron controllers were atrocious. > > Server grade disks are improving by leaps and bounds, but they are > expensive and I don't see this filtering down to netbooks at this point in > time yet. But I would be ecstatically happy to be proved wrong!
The one in mine gives me better performance then the ones that are usually stuck inside consumer-grade laptops and the SD-card reader supports the faster SD-cards as well, which helps. > Your use-case for netbooks is spot-on too - a laptop-replacement it is not. > My kids use mine for surfing and I use it when on standby and want to go > out visiting. All I need is an xterm - 1024x600 makes a fine terminal. > With wired, wireless and a 3G dongle I have all bases covered. Plus it > fits in the wife's handbag :-) no need to carry a big backpack with a huge > Dell inside. I've seen women carry handbags that could hold a 17" laptop easily, btw :) But I know what you mean. I tend to use mine for: - webbrowsing - email - odd document / taking notes - viewing the pictures from the camera - random entertainment (movies/games/...) while stuck inside during holidays
