re: IPad In many ways, I agree with you. I used the IPad as a stalking horse to show what else the same pile of bucks can buy besides a big and expensive SSD. Unfortunately, SSDs are still very pricey and compounding the cost are the limited options in the 1.8" form factor.
Don't get me wrong, I'm keeping my X301 and it is my main machine that I haul around while traveling. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Dominique Pivard <[email protected]>wrote: > On 18.02.2011 19:47, you, James H. E. Maugham wrote: > > It was a Samsung caseless drive and a gift. I don't believe I would have >> performed the upgrade had I been forced to pay for the HD. >> >> I believe it was originally in a Sony laptop. >> > > Is this MMDPE56G8DXP-0VB, as listed in > http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/SSD/downloads/PM800_18_SATA_II_Spec_rev11.pdf > ? > > That would be the big brother of MMCRE28G8MXP-0VB, which is the 128GB > version that came with my X301. > > According to this ( > http://reviews.cnet.com/system-hard-drives/samsung-mmdpe56g8dxp-solid-state/1707-9989_7-33810175.html) > it's discontinued. I'm wondering why. > > The only 256GB SSD's that I've managed to find so far (available for > purchase) are Crucial and Kingston. Yes, they are expensive, but the X301 is > my main computer and the X60s it replaced had a 500GB drive. I'm having a > hard time fitting everything in the 128GB SSD. > > And Mitchell: I couldn't care less the same money could buy me an iPad ;-) > No interest whatsoever in an iPad. Owning a X301 and a new 13" MacBook Air, > both of which are useful, real computers, I fail to see what I would do with > an iPad. > > Cheers, Dominique > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
