On 12/12/11 10:19, Thomas Davies wrote:
On 12/12/2011 09:27 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
The computer seems to boot a bit quicker but otherwise is no different
in operation.
Really? You must have had a pretty quick disk before. ...
Yes, the disk the the top specification Kogan laptop was pretty quick.
Or to put it another way, the processor is slow. So the Solid State Disk
(SSD) does not make much of difference in for the limited use I make of it.
Where SSD it makes a difference is the digitised newspaper search, at
the National Library of Australia. Kent Fitch talked in Canberra last
week about the open source software used for the Library's Trove
service. He was enthusiastic in recommending SSD for this application:
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/12/trove-digital-culture-search-service-at.html
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