A solid state drive is like a great big SD card, no waiting for spin up. Solid state drives are instant on, dead quiet and fast. As soon as one with a decent size and not outrageous price becomes available in the 1.8" form factor the slow hard drive in my tablet pc will be replaced.
Cheryl D Wise MS MVP FrontPage http://by-expression.com http://starttoweb.com Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond -----Original Message----- From: Tris I'm specing up a new laptop... Dell are offering a 32Gb solid state drive as a hard drive option. Can anyone tell me why I'd want this? (I've got a 160Gb WEstern digital that's small and USB powered, so I could carry that with me, but ) it strikes me as silly to limit the laptop to 32Gb... What am I missing? ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: unknown lmsubst tag argument: '' To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.